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CPT DATA FILES LICENSE AGREEMENT:
APPENDIX C: ROYALTY RATES
UPFRONT ANNUAL ROYALTY FEE
Effective Date |
Upfront Annual Royalty Fee* |
Minimum Prior Year Total Paid Royalties to Qualify for Waiver of Upfront Annual Royalty Fee** |
Jan. 1, 2020 |
$1,050 |
$11,550 |
* Initial Upfront Annual Royalty Fee payment is due upon execution of this Agreement. An additional Upfront Annual Royalty Fee at AMA’s then-current rates is due no later than July 31 of each subsequent year of the Term.
** If Licensee’s total royalties in the previous calendar year, inclusive of all Distribution Royalties and the Upfront Annual Royalty Fee (if it was paid), exceeds the minimum amount of total paid royalties detailed in Upfront Annual Royalty Fee table, an Upfront Annual Royalty Fee will be waived.
DISTRIBUTION ROYALTY RATES
Distribution Royalty rates for applicable Licensing Models are listed below for the AMA content available for license under this Agreement. Royalty rates for content not currently included as Licensed Content under this Agreement are for reference only. Pursuant to Section 13.6, additional content may be added as Licensed Content upon execution of a written amendment to this Agreement, or such use may be subject to a separate license agreement.
2026 DISTRIBUTION ROYALTY RATES (EFFECTIVE AS OF JANUARY 1, 2026)
Table 1.1 Counting Users Model |
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Name of Data File |
Effective Date |
Distribution Royalty Rate |
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) Standard |
January 1, 2026 |
$18.50 for each User |
Each previous annual release of CPT |
January 1, 2026 |
$9.25 for each User (in addition to per User royalty for current annual release as listed above) |
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) Relative Value Units |
January 1, 2026 |
Calculated as $18.50 for each User, in addition to $18.50 CPT Standard royalty for each User |
AMA’s Version of Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System, Level II |
January 1, 2026 |
$19.50 |
AMA’s Version of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification and Procedure Coding System |
January 1, 2026 |
$22.00 |
CPT® Consumer Friendly Data |
January 1, 2026 |
$111.00 per 10,000 unique Consumer Users |
Table 1.2 Counting Users Model – Print Licensed Products |
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Name of Licensed Content |
Effective Date |
Distribution Royalty Rate |
Current Procedural Terminology, Fourth Edition and CPT® Standard Data File |
January 1, 2026 |
$18.50 per Distributed Copy |
Table 2 User Proxy Model |
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Name of Data File |
Effective Date |
Distribution Royalty Rate |
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) Standard |
January 1, 2026 |
$18.50 for each User |
Each previous annual release of CPT |
January 1, 2026 |
$9.25 for each User, (in addition to per User royalty for current annual release as listed above) |
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) Relative Value Units |
January 1, 2026 |
Calculated as $18.50 for each User, in addition to $18.50 CPT Standard royalty for each User |
AMA’s Version of Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System, Level II |
January 1, 2026 |
$19.50 |
AMA’s Version of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification and Procedure Coding System |
January 1, 2026 |
$22.00 |
Table 3.1 Health Plan Model |
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Name of Data File |
Effective Date |
Supporting Product Distribution Royalty Rate (per Member) |
Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) Standard |
January 1, 2026 |
$0.00546 |
AMA’s Version of Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System, Level II |
January 1, 2026 |
$0.00579 |
AMA’s Version of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification and Procedure Coding System |
January 1, 2026 |
$0.00657 |