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HCPCS P3000

HCPCS Level II

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No national payment amount

Status X is not separately payable under the PFS.

Statutory exclusion. The service is not in the statutory definition of physician services.

Common questions

Why is there no payment amount for P3000?

Its status indicator is X (statutory exclusion). Statutory exclusion. The service is not in the statutory definition of physician services. The blank is deliberate: the amount is unknown or paid another way, not zero.

When does this rate change?

CMS publishes a fee schedule release every quarter (January, April, July, October). Each release is versioned here, so past quarters stay lookupable — see what changed each release, or get an email when a new release moves rates.

Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files.

Saw this code on your bill?

What is a P3000 visit in patient-friendly terms?

In plain terms: Screen pap by tech w md supv You'll typically see HCPCS P3000 on a bill or explanation of benefits (EOB) when a clinician performs or bills for this service.

How this amount is computed

amount = (work RVU × work GPCI + PE RVU × PE GPCI + MP RVU × MP GPCI) × conversion factor. National amounts use GPCI = 1.000.

Release Q3 2026

Every rate combines three parts: work (the clinician’s time, skill and effort), practice expense (office overhead — higher when the service is done in a doctor’s own office), and malpractice (the share of liability-insurance cost). A value of blank means CMS publishes no national number for that part — which is not the same as zero.

Rate history by release

National non-facility amount for P3000 across quarterly releases.

$1 $1 $0 $-1 $-1 Q1 2025 · $0.00 Q2 2025 · $0.00 Q3 2025 · $0.00 Q4 2025 · $0.00 Q1 2026 · $0.00 Q2 2026 · $0.00 Q3 2026 · $0.00 Q1 2025 Q2 2025 Q3 2025 Q1 2026 Q2 2026 Q3 2026
Non-facility Facility
Release Status Non-facility Facility
Q3 2026 Jun 30, 2026 X $0.00 $0.00
Q2 2026 Mar 10, 2026 X $0.00 $0.00
Q1 2026 Dec 29, 2025 X $0.00 $0.00

Billing together (NCCI edits)

NCCI Q3 2026

Per CMS's National Correct Coding Initiative. Hover a code for when it's used.

Never billable with P3000 on the same date of service

Billable with P3000 only with modifier 59, XE, XS, XP, or XU

88160 88161 99202 - New Patient Office Visit, Level 2 99203 - New Patient Office Visit, Level 3 99204 - New Patient Office Visit, Level 4 99205 - New Patient Office Visit, Level 5 99211 - Established Patient Office Visit, Minimal 99212 - Established Patient Office Visit, Level 2 99213 - Established Patient Office Visit, Level 3 99214 - Established Patient Office Visit, Level 4 99215 - Established Patient Office Visit, Level 5 99221 - Initial Hospital Care, Level 1 99222 - Initial Hospital Care, Level 2 99223 - Initial Hospital Care, Level 3 99231 - Subsequent Hospital Care, Level 1 99232 - Subsequent Hospital Care, Level 2 99233 - Subsequent Hospital Care, Level 3 99234 99235 99236 99238 - Hospital Discharge Day Management, 30 Minutes or Less 99239 99281 99282 99283 - Emergency Department Visit, Level 3 +63 more

Source & method

Computed from the CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q3 2026 release (schedule pfs, effective July 2026). National amounts apply a GPCI of 1.000 and exclude sequestration. Payability follows the status indicator, not RVU values — blank RVUs are never treated as zero. Releases are immutable; a rate retrieved for a past quarter always reflects that release. Code descriptions for HCPCS Level II are CMS-owned.

Physician relative value file (Q3 2026) · rvu26c-updated-06-30-2026.zip (PPRRVU2026_Jul_nonQPP.csv row 17,898)

Conversion factor $33.4009 read from the same file, row 11, column 26.

Use the (i) buttons next to each amount above for the exact row, columns, and math.