CPT code 01744: Elbow repair anesthesia, humeral nonunion or malunion2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in San Francisco, CA

CMS doesn’t publish a rate for 01744 in San Francisco, CA.

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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 01744 covers

This service covers anesthesia for open or surgical arthroscopic elbow procedures to repair a humeral nonunion or malunion. These operations address a humerus fracture that has not healed or has healed in poor alignment. An anesthesiologist or CRNA reports the anesthesia service for the operative encounter, commonly in a hospital operating room or hospital outpatient setting.

Select this code when the operative procedure repairs a humeral nonunion or malunion, rather than a general elbow procedure, osteotomy, cyst excision, or total elbow replacement. The operative report should identify the humeral healing problem, the approach, and the repair performed; the anesthesia record should support the practitioner’s service and time. The code has 5 base units; Medicare payment is (base units + time units) multiplied by the locality’s anesthesia conversion factor. Time starts when the anesthesia practitioner begins preparing the patient for anesthesia and ends when 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.

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How the 01744 rate is calculated

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Payment rules and modifiers for 01744

01744 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 01744

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How 01744 has changed in San Francisco, CA

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Where the San Francisco, CA 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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