CPT code 01926: Interventional anesthesia, intracranial, intracardiac, or aortic2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Oregon
Anesthesia for therapeutic catheter-based interventions involving intracranial vessels, structures within the heart, or the aorta, rather than diagnostic studies alone.
CMS doesn’t publish an office rate for 01926 in Oregon.
Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.
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What 01926 covers
This service supports therapeutic catheter-based procedures directed at intracranial vessels, structures within the heart, or the aorta. Typical cases include endovascular treatment of cerebral aneurysms or other intracranial vascular lesions, intracardiac interventions, and endovascular aortic treatment. An anesthesiologist or CRNA reports the anesthesia service in the procedural facility; the interventional radiologist, neurointerventionalist, cardiologist, or vascular specialist reports the treatment itself.
Choose 01926 for therapeutic interventions involving one of these specified regions, rather than an arterial procedure not otherwise specified or a diagnostic arteriography study. The anesthesia record should identify the intervention, show the patient's preparation and recovery handoff, and document anesthesia start and end times; the operative report should establish the treated site and therapeutic purpose. This code has 8 base units; Medicare payment is (base units + time units) multiplied by the locality's anesthesia conversion factor. Time is recorded in minutes and converted to 15-minute units to one decimal place, from preparation for anesthesia until the practitioner is no longer in personal attendance and the patient can safely enter 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.
Where 01926 pays more and less in Oregon
| Payment locality | Office | Facility |
|---|---|---|
| Portland, OR | Unavailable | Unavailable |
| Rest of Oregon | Unavailable | Unavailable |
How the 01926 rate is calculated
Each of 01926’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.
How the rate is built · 01926
RVUs × geographic indexes × conversion factor
Work0.00
0.00 RVUs× 1.000 GPCI
Practice expense0.00
0.00 RVUs× 1.000 GPCI
Malpractice0.00
0.00 RVUs× 1.000 GPCI
Adjusted RVUs
0.0000
Conversion factor
$33.4009
Medicare rate
$0.00
Every GPCI starts at 1.000, the national rate. Enter a ZIP or drag a slider.
Payment rules and modifiers for 01926
01926 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.
Place of service · 01926
Which rate does Medicare pay?
The POS code on the claim line (CMS-1500 box 24B).
POS 11 · non-facility rate · national
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01926 isn’t priced in this setting.
01926 compared with similar codes
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4 codes, side by side
How to choose
- 01924Arterial interventionOther arterial sites
- Use 01926 for therapeutic intervention involving intracranial, intracardiac, or aortic sites. Use 01924 for therapeutic interventional radiology involving arteries not otherwise specified.
- 01916Angiography anesthesiaDiagnostic artery or vein study
- 01916 is for diagnostic arteriography or venography. 01926 is for anesthesia during therapeutic intervention involving its specified sites.
- 01920Cardiac cath anesthesia
- 01920 describes anesthesia for cardiac catheterization. Choose 01926 when the service is a therapeutic interventional radiological procedure involving an intracardiac site.
01926 billing questions
How does 01926 differ from 01924?
01926 is for therapeutic interventions involving intracranial, intracardiac, or aortic sites. 01924 is for therapeutic interventional radiology involving arteries not otherwise specified.
Is 01926 appropriate for diagnostic arteriography alone?
No. For diagnostic arteriography or venography, compare 01916; 01926 describes anesthesia for a therapeutic intervention at one of its specified sites.
What should the records show?
The anesthesia record should support the anesthesia service and its start and end times. The operative report should identify the treated site and show that the catheter-based procedure was therapeutic.
How are time units counted?
Report anesthesia time in minutes; CMS converts it to 15-minute units, computed to one decimal place. The code has 8 base units, and time units are added under the Medicare anesthesia payment formula.
Does this code report the intervention itself?
No. The anesthesia practitioner reports the anesthesia service; the physician performing the intracranial, intracardiac, or aortic intervention reports the treatment under the applicable procedure code.
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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