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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01
97033 Medicare reimbursement rates in California
Compare 97033 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 97033 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
$19.99–$24.27
29 of 29 localities have a supported rate.
Lowest: Chico
Highest: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (San Benito Cnty)
A spread of $4.28 per service.
Facility setting
No supported rate
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.
Where 97033 pays more and less in California
29 payment localities
$19.99 to $24.27
Compare 97033 by payment locality
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.
29 of 29 payment localities
| Payment locality | Office | Facility |
|---|---|---|
| Bakersfield | Office $20.03 | Facility Unavailable |
| Chico | Office $19.99 | Facility Unavailable |
| El Centro | Office $19.99 | Facility Unavailable |
| Fresno | Office $19.99 | Facility Unavailable |
| Hanford-Corcoran | Office $19.99 | Facility Unavailable |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim (Los Angeles/Orange Cnty) | Office $21.12 | Facility Unavailable |
| Madera | Office $19.99 | Facility Unavailable |
| Merced | Office $19.99 | Facility Unavailable |
| Modesto | Office $19.99 | Facility Unavailable |
| Napa | Office $22.61 | Facility Unavailable |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura | Office $20.98 | Facility Unavailable |
| Redding | Office $19.99 | Facility Unavailable |
| Rest Of California | Office $19.99 | Facility Unavailable |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario | Office $20.11 | Facility Unavailable |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom | Office $20.83 | Facility Unavailable |
| Salinas | Office $20.75 | Facility Unavailable |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad | Office $21.11 | Facility Unavailable |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley (Marin Cnty) | Office $23.79 | Facility Unavailable |
| San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley (San Francisco/San Mateo/Alameda/Contra Costa Cnty) | Office $23.78 | Facility Unavailable |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (San Benito Cnty) | Office $24.27 | Facility Unavailable |
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (Santa Clara Cnty) | Office $24.22 | Facility Unavailable |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles | Office $20.42 | Facility Unavailable |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville | Office $21.22 | Facility Unavailable |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara | Office $20.79 | Facility Unavailable |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma | Office $21.43 | Facility Unavailable |
| Stockton | Office $19.99 | Facility Unavailable |
| Vallejo | Office $22.59 | Facility Unavailable |
| Visalia | Office $19.99 | Facility Unavailable |
| Yuba City | Office $19.99 | Facility Unavailable |
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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.