CPT code 01730: Closed orthopedic anesthesia, humerus or elbow2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in California

CMS doesn’t publish an office rate for 01730 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 01730 covers

01730 applies to anesthesia for closed orthopedic procedures involving the humerus or elbow, such as closed treatment of a fracture or dislocation. Anesthesia practitioners provide and report the anesthesia service for these procedures. The operative documentation should identify the treated bone or joint and establish that the procedure was closed, rather than open or arthroscopic.

Choose 01730 for the closed procedure, not for upper-arm or elbow nerve surgery, diagnostic elbow arthroscopy, or an open or arthroscopic elbow operation. The operative report should establish the procedure and approach, while the anesthesia record should support the service and its start and end times. Medicare assigns 3 base units; payment is (base units plus time units) multiplied by the locality’s anesthesia conversion factor. Anesthesia time runs from when the practitioner begins preparing the patient until the practitioner is no longer in personal attendance and the patient can safely be placed under postoperative care; minutes convert to 15-minute time units computed to one decimal place, and the conversion factor varies 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 01730 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 01730 rate is calculated

Each of 01730’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 01730

01730 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.

01730 compared with similar codes

How to choose

01710Upper-arm/elbow anesthesiaNerve, muscle, tendon NOS

01710 covers anesthesia for nerve procedures involving the upper arm or elbow. Choose 01730 when the anesthetized procedure is a closed orthopedic procedure on the humerus or elbow.

01732Elbow arthroscopy anesthesiaDiagnostic joint inspection

01732 is for diagnostic arthroscopy of the elbow joint. 01730 is for a closed procedure, not an arthroscopic examination.

01740Other elbow anesthesiaOpen or arthroscopic, unspecified

01740 covers open or arthroscopic elbow procedures not represented by a more specific code; 01730 is for closed procedures involving the humerus or elbow.

01744Elbow repair anesthesiaHumeral nonunion or malunion

01744 applies to open or arthroscopic elbow repair involving the humerus. Use 01730 when the humerus or elbow procedure is performed closed.

Codes related to 01730

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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