CPT code 01770: Arterial anesthesia, upper arm and elbow2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Visalia, CA

CMS doesn’t publish a rate for 01770 in Visalia, 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 01770 covers

01770 applies to anesthesia for operations on arteries in the upper arm or elbow when no more specific anesthesia category identifies the arterial procedure. An anesthesia practitioner, such as an anesthesiologist or CRNA, reports the anesthesia service; the code is selected for the arterial operative target, not simply because an incision is near the elbow. Arterial embolectomy is assigned to 01772, which describes removal of an embolus.

The operative report should identify the artery treated and the procedure performed, and the anesthesia record should support the anesthesia service and its start and end times. Use a neighboring anesthesia code when its defined procedure category matches, such as 01780 for upper-arm or elbow venous procedures. Medicare calculates payment as (base units + time units) × the locality’s anesthesia conversion factor; 01770 has 6 base units. Anesthesia time runs from when the practitioner begins preparing the patient until the practitioner is no longer personally attending and the patient can safely be placed under postoperative care; minutes convert to 15-minute 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.

How Visalia, CA compares for 01770

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How the 01770 rate is calculated

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Payment rules and modifiers for 01770

01770 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 01770

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How 01770 has changed in Visalia, CA

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Where the Visalia, CA rate applies

Visalia, CA is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 70 cities and communities in California. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Visalia
• Allensworth
• Alpaugh
• California Hot Springs
• Camp Nelson
• Cedar Slope
• Cutler
• Delft Colony

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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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