HCPCS code G0182: Hospice supervision, 30 minutes per month2026 Medicare rate & RVUs

Medicare pays $108.55 for G0182 nationally in the office. Local office rates run $100.02–$138.68.

Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.

What G0182 covers

G0182 covers a physician’s supervision of a patient receiving hospice care. The work may include developing or revising the treatment plan, reviewing hospice status reports and related studies, and communicating with hospice clinicians, family members, or caregivers to make care decisions. It is generally non-face-to-face physician work rather than a hospice team service or a patient visit.

Report one unit for a calendar month when the physician’s qualifying supervision work reaches at least 30 minutes. Documentation should identify the month, the physician’s time, and the specific plan review, clinical information reviewed, and care coordination performed. Routine hospice activities or staff time alone do not establish the physician’s qualifying work. CMS assigns the code physician fee schedule values for work, practice expense, and malpractice; the applicable payment is reflected in the fee schedule.

This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS physician fee schedule data and checked against the CMS billing rules shown here. Rates on this page come directly from CMS files.

Where G0182 pays more and less

The same RVUs, adjusted for each area’s costs. Open a locality for its calculation, history and nearby areas.

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G0182 rates by state

Office rate range in each state. Select a state to see its payment localities.

How the G0182 rate is calculated

Each of G0182’s three RVUs is multiplied by a geographic index (GPCI) for the payment locality, added up, and multiplied by the conversion factor. Drag the indexes or enter a ZIP to see what moves the rate.

Payment rules and modifiers for G0182

G0182 has no global surgery period, no multiple-procedure, bilateral or assistant-at-surgery adjustment, and no professional/technical split. What changes the payment is where the service happens: the place of service on the claim decides whether Medicare pays the office or the facility rate.

G0182 compared with similar codes

How to choose

G0181Home health supervision30 minutes per calendar month

Use G0182 for hospice supervision and G0181 for home health supervision; the care program determines the code.

99377Hospice supervision15-29 minutes monthly

99377 represents the CPT hospice supervision time level below 30 minutes; G0182 requires at least 30 minutes in the month.

99378Hospice oversight30 minutes or more

99378 is the CPT hospice supervision code for 30 minutes or more. G0182 is the HCPCS code; use the code set applicable to the payer and do not report both for the same work.

Codes related to G0182

Related codes aren’t interchangeable: bill the code that matches the service performed.

Where these rates come from

FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indexes and the conversion factor. Services without a published rate are labeled, never given a made-up amount. Amounts are Medicare allowed amounts before claim adjustments: not a patient’s bill or a commercial rate.

CMS RVU26D · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027

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