CPT code 01756: Elbow anesthesia, radical open or arthroscopic2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in California

CMS doesn’t publish an office rate for 01756 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 01756 covers

01756 is for anesthesia during a radical open or arthroscopic operation on the elbow. The underlying surgery is performed by an orthopedic surgeon; an anesthesiologist or CRNA reports the anesthesia service in an operating room, including hospital and ambulatory surgery center settings. Select it for a radical elbow procedure, not merely because the approach is open or arthroscopic.

The operative report should establish the radical nature and elbow site of the work, while the anesthesia record supports the service and its start and stop times. Use 01740 for open or arthroscopic elbow procedures that are not assigned a more specific anesthesia code; use distinct codes for elbow osteotomy, humeral repair, cyst excision, and total elbow replacement when those procedures describe the operation. This code has six base units. Medicare payment is (base units + time units) multiplied by the anesthesia conversion factor for the locality, which varies by locality. Time starts when the 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. CMS converts reported minutes to 15-minute time units, computed 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 01756 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 01756 rate is calculated

Each of 01756’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 01756

01756 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.

01756 compared with similar codes

How to choose

01740Other elbow anesthesiaOpen or arthroscopic, unspecified

01740 covers open or arthroscopic elbow procedures without a more specific anesthesia code. Use 01756 for a radical elbow procedure.

01742Elbow osteotomyOpen or arthroscopic osteotomy

01742 is for elbow osteotomy; 01756 is for a radical open or arthroscopic elbow procedure.

01758Elbow cyst anesthesiaOpen or arthroscopic excision

01758 is for elbow cyst excision. Use 01756 for a radical elbow procedure instead.

01760Elbow replacement anesthesiaTotal joint replacement

01760 applies to total elbow replacement, while 01756 applies to radical elbow procedures.

Codes related to 01756

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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