44005 Medicare reimbursement rates in California

Compare 44005 physician payment amounts across CMS localities, including office and facility settings.

Amounts below use the non-QP conversion factor for participating physicians. These are base physician payments before claim-level adjustments, not patient costs or total hospital charges.

What does Medicare pay for 44005 in California?

California has 29 payment localities in this comparison. Use the service location to choose the applicable amount. These are the supported base rates for the 29 payment areas shown below, using the same CMS release.

Office / nonfacility

No supported rate

Facility setting

$985.94–$1134.42

29 of 29 localities have a supported rate.

Lowest: Chico

Highest: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (San Benito Cnty)

A spread of $148.48 per service.

These are locality ranges, not averages or address-specific quotes. A facility-setting amount covers the physician service; it does not include a hospital’s separate bill. Choose a locality below to inspect its calculation, compare other payment areas, or price a percentage of Medicare.

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Find the payment area for your service address, then open its rate page for calculation inputs, release history and the percentage-of-Medicare tool. A city may cross payment-area boundaries; the ZIP lookup above helps resolve the location.

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29 of 29 payment localities

44005 office and facility rates by payment locality
Payment locality	Office	Facility
Bakersfield	Office Unavailable	Facility $998.21
Chico	Office Unavailable	Facility $985.94
El Centro	Office Unavailable	Facility $986.70
Fresno	Office Unavailable	Facility $985.94
Hanford-Corcoran	Office Unavailable	Facility $985.94
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim (Los Angeles/Orange Cnty)	Office Unavailable	Facility $1043.06
Madera	Office Unavailable	Facility $985.94
Merced	Office Unavailable	Facility $985.94
Modesto	Office Unavailable	Facility $985.94
Napa	Office Unavailable	Facility $1068.75
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura	Office Unavailable	Facility $1028.76
Redding	Office Unavailable	Facility $985.94
Rest Of California	Office Unavailable	Facility $985.94
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario	Office Unavailable	Facility $1034.61
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom	Office Unavailable	Facility $1015.29
Salinas	Office Unavailable	Facility $1011.21
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad	Office Unavailable	Facility $1021.42
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley (Marin Cnty)	Office Unavailable	Facility $1105.17
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley (San Francisco/San Mateo/Alameda/Contra Costa Cnty)	Office Unavailable	Facility $1100.01
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (San Benito Cnty)	Office Unavailable	Facility $1134.42
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (Santa Clara Cnty)	Office Unavailable	Facility $1113.35
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles	Office Unavailable	Facility $997.45
Santa Cruz-Watsonville	Office Unavailable	Facility $1020.18
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara	Office Unavailable	Facility $1011.28
Santa Rosa-Petaluma	Office Unavailable	Facility $1029.07
Stockton	Office Unavailable	Facility $985.94
Vallejo	Office Unavailable	Facility $1061.31
Visalia	Office Unavailable	Facility $985.94
Yuba City	Office Unavailable	Facility $985.94

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Where these rates come from

FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense, and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indices and the applicable conversion factor. Unavailable or separately priced services are labeled rather than assigned a made-up amount.

Source: RVU26D. Effective 2026-10-01 through the day before 2027-01-01.

RVUs for 44005PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv, line 5,323 (RVU26D)

5,32043888,,Gstr rstcv px opn rmvl&rplc,A,,6.28,5.86,NA,5.86,,1.67,13.81,13.81,0,090,0.09,0.81,0.10,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00

5,32143889,,Gstr rstcv px trnsorl esg,A,,12.56,7.00,NA,7.00,,1.99,21.55,21.55,0,090,0.09,0.84,0.07,3,0,0,0,0,9,43235,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00

5,32243999,,Unlisted procedure stomach,C,,0.00,0.00,,0.00,,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,YYY,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,0,0,1,1,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00

5,32344005,,Freeing of bowel adhesion,A,,18.00,8.01,NA,8.01,,4.54,30.55,30.55,0,090,0.09,0.81,0.10,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00

5,3244400F,,Rehab thxpy options w/pt,I,,0.00,0.00,,0.00,,0.00,0.00,0.00,9,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,9,9,9,9,9,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00

5,32544010,,Incision of small bowel,A,,13.90,6.89,NA,6.89,,2.64,23.43,23.43,0,090,0.09,0.81,0.10,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00

5,32644015,,Insert needle cath bowel,A,,2.55,0.62,NA,0.62,,0.62,3.79,3.79,0,ZZZ,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00

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