CPT code 01829: Wrist arthroscopy anesthesia, diagnostic procedure2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Minnesota

CMS doesn’t publish a rate for 01829 in Minnesota.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 01829 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 01829 covers

This code covers anesthesia for a diagnostic arthroscopic examination of the wrist joint. The surgeon uses an arthroscope to inspect the joint and evaluate its structures; the anesthesia may be provided by an anesthesiologist or CRNA in a hospital or ambulatory surgery setting. The anesthesia professional reports the service separately from the surgeon’s arthroscopy claim.

Use this code when the wrist arthroscopy is diagnostic, rather than for other wrist or hand arthroscopic or endoscopic procedures classified under 01830. The operative report should identify the wrist and establish the diagnostic nature of the arthroscopy; the anesthesia record should support the service and its start and end times. This code has 3 base units. Medicare payment is (3 base units + time units) multiplied by the anesthesia conversion factor; time is reported in minutes and converted to 15-minute units to one decimal place, beginning when the practitioner starts preparing the patient for anesthesia and ending when the practitioner is no longer in personal attendance and the patient can safely be placed under postoperative care. 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 Minnesota compares for 01829

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How the 01829 rate is calculated

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Payment rules and modifiers for 01829

01829 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 01829

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How 01829 has changed in Minnesota

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Where the Minnesota 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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