CPT code 00142: Lens surgery anesthesia, lens procedures2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in New Mexico

CMS doesn’t publish a rate for 00142 in New Mexico.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 00142 nationwide

Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.

What 00142 covers

Code 00142 applies to anesthesia for operations on the crystalline lens, most commonly cataract removal with placement of an intraocular lens. Anesthesia professionals provide the service in hospital operating rooms and ambulatory surgery centers, supporting ophthalmic surgeons during procedures involving lens access and manipulation. The anesthesia claim represents the professional anesthesia service, not the surgeon’s lens procedure.

Use this code when the operative plan centers on lens surgery; other eye operations, such as corneal transplantation or vitreoretinal surgery, have separate anesthesia categories. The operative report should identify the lens procedure, and the anesthesia record should establish the practitioner’s service and start and stop times. Code 00142 has 4 base units; Medicare payment is (base units + time units) × the locality’s anesthesia conversion factor, which varies by locality. Time is reported in minutes and converted to 15-minute units to one decimal place, from preparation for anesthesia until personal attendance ends and the patient can safely be placed in postoperative care.

This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS physician fee schedule data and checked against the CMS billing rules shown here. Rates on this page come directly from CMS files.

How New Mexico compares for 00142

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00142 rates by state

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How the 00142 rate is calculated

Each of 00142’s three RVUs is multiplied by a geographic index (GPCI) for the payment locality, added up, and multiplied by the conversion factor. Drag the indexes or enter a ZIP to see what moves the rate.

Payment rules and modifiers for 00142

00142 has no global surgery period, no multiple-procedure, bilateral or assistant-at-surgery adjustment, and no professional/technical split. What changes the payment is where the service happens: the place of service on the claim decides whether Medicare pays the office or the facility rate.

Codes related to 00142

Related codes aren’t interchangeable: bill the code that matches the service performed.

How 00142 has changed in New Mexico

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Where the New Mexico rate applies

New Mexico is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 528 cities and communities in New Mexico. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Abeytas
• Abiquiu
• Acomita Lake
• Adelino
• Agua Fria
• Alamillo
• Alamo
• Alamogordo

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Where these rates come from

FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indexes and the conversion factor. Services without a published rate are labeled, never given a made-up amount. Amounts are Medicare allowed amounts before claim adjustments: not a patient’s bill or a commercial rate.

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