CPT code 01842: Embolectomy anesthesia, forearm, wrist, or hand arteries2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Nebraska

CMS doesn’t publish a rate for 01842 in Nebraska.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 01842 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 01842 covers

This service covers anesthesia during surgery to remove an embolus from an artery in the forearm, wrist, or hand. An anesthesia practitioner, such as an anesthesiologist or CRNA, reports the anesthesia service; the surgeon performs the arterial procedure.

Choose this code for an arterial embolectomy in the covered region; other arterial procedures there use 01840, while vascular shunt or shunt-revision surgery is associated with 01844. The operative report should identify the treated artery and document embolus removal, and the anesthesia record should support the anesthetic service. This code has 6 base units. Medicare payment is (6 base units + time units) multiplied by the locality-specific anesthesia conversion factor; time starts when the practitioner begins preparing the patient for anesthesia and ends when personal attendance ends and the patient can safely be placed under postoperative care, with minutes 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 Nebraska compares for 01842

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How the 01842 rate is calculated

Each of 01842’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 01842

01842 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 01842

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

How 01842 has changed in Nebraska

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Where the Nebraska rate applies

Nebraska is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 593 cities and communities in Nebraska. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Abie
• Adams
• Agnew
• Ainsworth
• Albion
• Alda
• Alexandria
• Allen

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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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