---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 414.52"
title: "42"
number: "414.52"
heading: "Payment for physician assistants' services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/414.52"
---

# §414.52. Payment for physician assistants' services.


Allowed amounts for the services of a physician assistant furnished beginning January 1, 1992 and ending December 31, 1997, may not exceed the limits specified in [paragraphs (a) through (c)](#a..c) of this section. Allowed amounts for the services of a physician assistant furnished beginning January 1, 1998, may not exceed the limits specified in [paragraph (d)](#d) of this section.

- (a) For assistant-at-surgery services, 65 percent of the amount that would be allowed under the physician fee schedule if the assistant-at-surgery service was furnished by a physician.
- (b) For services (other than assistant-at-surgery services) furnished in a hospital, 75 percent of the physician fee schedule amount for the service.
- (c) **For all other services, 85 percent of the physician fee schedule amount for the service.**
- (d) For services (other than assistant-at-surgery services) furnished beginning January 1, 1998, 85 percent of the physician fee schedule amount for the service. For assistant-at-surgery services, 85 percent of the physician fee schedule amount that would be allowed under the physician fee schedule if the assistant-at-surgery service were furnished by a physician.

## Notes

### Amendments

[56 FR 59624, Nov. 25, 1991; 57 FR 42492, Sept. 15, 1992, as amended at 63 FR 58911, Nov. 2, 1998]

### Source

Source: 56 FR 59624, Nov. 25, 1991; 57 FR 42492, Sept. 15, 1992, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302, 1395hh, and 1395rr(b)(l).

### Source

Source: 55 FR 23441, June 8, 1990, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[56 FR 59624, Nov. 25, 1991; 57 FR 42492, Sept. 15, 1992, as amended at 63 FR 58911, Nov. 2, 1998]