CPT code 00750: Hernia repair anesthesia, upper abdomen, other2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in California

CMS doesn’t publish an office rate for 00750 in California.

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

What 00750 covers

Code 00750 covers anesthesia for repair of an upper abdominal hernia when the hernia type does not fall into a more specifically classified hernia-repair category. Anesthesia practitioners furnish and report the service during the operation, commonly in a hospital or ambulatory surgical setting. The surgeon’s operative report identifies the hernia site and type and describes the repair; the anesthesia record documents the anesthesia service and time.

Select 00752 for lumbar, ventral, or incisional hernia repair, 00754 for omphalocele repair, and 00756 for diaphragmatic hernia repair. Code 00700 describes anesthesia for other upper anterior abdominal wall procedures, not this hernia-repair category. The operative documentation should establish the hernia’s site and type and what was repaired, while the anesthesia record supports the reported minutes. Code 00750 has 4 base units; Medicare payment is (base units + time units) × the locality’s anesthesia conversion factor. Anesthesia time is reported in minutes and converted to 15-minute units to one decimal place, from the start of anesthesia preparation until the practitioner is no longer in personal attendance and the patient can safely be placed in postoperative care; conversion factors vary by locality.

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.

Where 00750 pays more and less in California

The same RVUs, adjusted for each area’s costs. Open a locality for its calculation, history and nearby areas.

29 of 29 payment localities

How the 00750 rate is calculated

Each of 00750’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 00750

00750 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.

00750 compared with similar codes

How to choose

00700Abdominal wall anesthesiaUnspecified upper anterior wall

00700 is for other upper anterior abdominal wall procedures. Use 00750 when the anesthetized operation is an upper abdominal hernia repair.

00752Hernia repair anesthesiaLumbar, ventral, incisional

00752 applies to lumbar, ventral, or incisional hernia repairs. Use 00750 for an upper abdominal hernia repair outside those specified categories.

00754Omphalocele anesthesiaCongenital abdominal wall repair

00754 is specific to omphalocele repair; 00750 covers other upper abdominal hernia repairs within its scope.

00756Diaphragmatic herniaIncluding hiatal hernia

00756 is specific to diaphragmatic hernia repair. Use 00750 for other upper abdominal hernia repairs within its scope.

Codes related to 00750

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

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.

CMS RVU26D · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027

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