CPT wRVUs · 2026
CPT 99202 — New patient visit — straightforward (level 2)
2026 work RVU (wRVU)
What 99202 is worth
A wRVU is a unit of physician work, not a dollar amount. Your pay for 99202 is 0.93 × your employer's $/wRVU rate — a figure negotiated in your contract, commonly in the ~$35–90 range depending on specialty and market. That rate is not the Medicare conversion factor (about $33 for 2026), which is a billing rate, not a pay rate. At an example $50/wRVU, one 99202 is about $46.50 of production credit.
How to track it
Confirm the value your billing system credited against the current CMS Physician Fee Schedule, and keep your own per-encounter log so you can catch any discrepancy between what you billed and what landed on your comp report. The free RVU calculator totals wRVUs across codes for any CMS year.
FAQ
How many wRVUs is CPT 99202?
For 2026, CPT 99202 (new patient visit — straightforward (level 2)) carries a work RVU of 0.93.
How much does 99202 pay?
Pay = 0.93 wRVU × your employer's negotiated $/wRVU rate. At an example $50/wRVU that's about $46.50 of production credit — your actual rate is set by your contract, not by Medicare's conversion factor.
Where does the 99202 wRVU come from?
From the CMS Physician Fee Schedule, which publishes a work RVU for each CPT/HCPCS code annually.
Educational only — not coding, billing, or financial advice. wRVU values reflect the CMS Physician Fee Schedule and change over time; the plain-language description is our own, not the AMA's copyrighted CPT descriptor. Confirm values against current CMS data.