CPT code 01820: Wrist and hand bone anesthesia, closed bone procedures2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Alabama

CMS doesn’t publish a rate for 01820 in Alabama.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 01820 nationwide

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

What 01820 covers

This code covers anesthesia for closed procedures involving the radius, ulna, wrist, or hand bones, commonly closed reduction of a fracture. An anesthesiologist or CRNA reports the anesthesia service for these procedures in a hospital or other operative setting. The operative approach—not simply the fact that the patient has a wrist or hand condition—determines whether this code fits.

Use this code for a closed bone procedure rather than anesthesia for soft-tissue work, wrist arthroscopy, or casting alone. The operative report should identify the treated bone and establish that the procedure was closed; the anesthesia record supports the anesthesia service and its time. This code has 3 base units; Medicare payment is (base units + time units) multiplied by the locality’s anesthesia conversion factor. Anesthesia 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; minutes are converted 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.

How Alabama compares for 01820

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01820 rates by state

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How the 01820 rate is calculated

Each of 01820’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 01820

01820 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 01820

Related codes aren’t interchangeable: bill the code that matches the service performed.

How 01820 has changed in Alabama

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Where the Alabama rate applies

Alabama is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 595 cities and communities in Alabama. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Abanda
• Abbeville
• Adamsville
• Addison
• Akron
• Alabaster
• Albertville
• Alexander City

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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.

CMS RVU26D · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027

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