CPT wRVUs · 2026 · evaluation & management
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.
What 99202 pays at different contract rates
One 99202 equals 0.93 wRVU. Here is the production credit that generates at a range of common $/wRVU rates:
| Contract rate | Pay per 99202 |
|---|---|
| $40/wRVU | $37.20 |
| $50/wRVU | $46.50 |
| $60/wRVU | $55.80 |
| $70/wRVU | $65.10 |
| $80/wRVU | $74.40 |
At a mid-market $55/wRVU, doing this code about 20× a week works out to roughly 893 wRVU and $49,104 of production a year — before any threshold, tiering, or bonus in your contract.
99202 wRVU history (2020–2026)
This code's work RVU has been stable at 0.93 across recent CMS schedules. Still worth confirming your contract prices it against the current year.
| CMS year | wRVU |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 0.93 |
| 2021 | 0.93 |
| 2022 | 0.93 |
| 2023 | 0.93 |
| 2024 | 0.93 |
| 2025 | 0.93 |
| 2026 | 0.93 |
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.
Related evaluation & management codes
Other codes physicians look up alongside 99202:
99203 — New patient visit — low complexity (level 3) · wRVU 1.60 99204 — New patient visit — moderate complexity (level 4) · wRVU 2.60 99205 — New patient visit — high complexity (level 5) · wRVU 3.50 99211 — Established minimal / nurse visit · wRVU 0.18 99212 — Established patient visit — straightforward (level 2) · wRVU 0.70 99213 — Established patient visit — low complexity (level 3) · wRVU 1.30FAQ
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.
Is 99202 the Medicare conversion factor times a dollar amount?
No. The wRVU (0.93) measures physician work only. Your pay is that wRVU times your contract's $/wRVU rate, which is set by your employer — not the ~$33 Medicare conversion factor, which governs billing, not physician compensation.
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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.