CPT code 01920: Cardiac cath anesthesia2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Washington, DC area

CMS doesn’t publish a rate for 01920 in Washington, DC area.

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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 01920 covers

This code covers anesthesia for catheter-based evaluation or treatment of the heart, including diagnostic cardiac catheterization and catheter-based cardiac interventions. An anesthesiologist or CRNA provides the anesthesia care, commonly in a hospital cardiac catheterization laboratory; typically, a cardiologist performs the catheterization, and the anesthesia professional reports the anesthesia service. The operative and anesthesia records should identify the cardiac catheterization and document the anesthesia care and time.

Choose this code for cardiac catheterization rather than anesthesia for diagnostic arteriography or venography (01916), therapeutic interventional radiology involving arterial catheterization (01924–01926), or noninvasive imaging (01922). Medicare payment uses (7 base units + time units) × the locality’s anesthesia conversion factor. Anesthesia time is reported in minutes and converted to 15-minute time units rounded to one decimal; it 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.

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 Washington, DC area compares for 01920

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01920 rates by state

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How the 01920 rate is calculated

Each of 01920’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 01920

01920 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 01920

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

How 01920 has changed in Washington, DC area

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Where the Washington, DC area 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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