CPT code 01482: Radical resection anesthesia, lower leg, ankle, or foot2026 Medicare rate & RVUs

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

What 01482 covers

This anesthesia service accompanies an open radical resection involving the lower leg, ankle, or foot. The operative surgeon performs the resection, while an anesthesiologist or CRNA provides and reports the anesthesia, typically in a hospital or ambulatory surgery setting.

Select 01482 when the operative documentation identifies an open radical resection in these regions. Code 01480 describes other open procedures; 01484 is for open bone reshaping procedures, and 01486 is for open total ankle replacement. The operative report should establish the body site, open approach, and radical nature of the resection; the anesthesia record should support the service and its start and end times. This code has 4 base units; Medicare anesthesia payment is (base units plus time units) multiplied by the locality-specific anesthesia conversion factor. Anesthesia 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.

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 01482 pays more and less

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

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01482 rates by state

Office rate range in each state. Select a state to see its payment localities.

How the 01482 rate is calculated

Each of 01482’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 01482

01482 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.

01482 compared with similar codes

How to choose

01480Open lower-extremity anesthesiaLower leg, ankle, or foot

01482 is for open radical resection; 01480 is for other open procedures in the lower leg, ankle, or foot.

01484Bone procedure anesthesiaOpen lower leg, ankle, or foot

Choose 01484 for open bone reshaping or reconstruction rather than radical resection.

01486Ankle replacement anesthesiaOpen total joint replacement

01486 applies to open total ankle replacement; 01482 applies to open radical resection in the lower leg, ankle, or foot.

Codes related to 01482

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.

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