CPT code 01470: Lower-leg anesthesia, nerves, muscles, tendons, fascia2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Washington, DC area

CMS doesn’t publish a rate for 01470 in Washington, DC area.

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

What 01470 covers

01470 covers anesthesia for procedures directed at nerves, muscles, tendons, or fascia in the lower leg, ankle, or foot when no more specific anesthesia category describes the operation. An anesthesia practitioner provides and reports the anesthesia service. This category distinguishes these procedures from anesthesia classified by a named operation, an open or closed approach, or ankle or foot arthroscopy.

Select the code based on the procedure documented in the operative report, not incision location alone. Use 01472 for Achilles tendon repair, 01474 for gastrocnemius recession, 01464 for ankle or foot arthroscopy, and 01480 for open procedures in the region not otherwise specifically categorized; 01462 describes closed procedures there. The operative report should identify the site and procedure, and the anesthesia record should support the service and document its start and end times. This code has 3 base units; Medicare payment is (base units + time units) multiplied by the locality’s anesthesia conversion factor. Time runs from when the practitioner begins preparing the patient for anesthesia until the practitioner is no longer in personal attendance and the patient can safely be placed under postoperative care; minutes convert to 15-minute units to one decimal place, and 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.

How Washington, DC area compares for 01470

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How the 01470 rate is calculated

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Payment rules and modifiers for 01470

01470 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 01470

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How 01470 has changed in Washington, DC area

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Where the Washington, DC area rate applies

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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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