CPT code 10030: Fluid drainage, image-guided, soft tissue2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Riverside, CA

In Riverside, CA, Medicare pays $670.71 for 10030 in the office and $119.77 when it’s performed in a hospital or facility.

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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 10030 covers

The service places a drainage catheter through the skin into a fluid collection in soft tissue, using imaging to guide placement. Typical targets include an abscess, hematoma, seroma, lymphocele, or cyst in sites such as an extremity, abdominal wall, or neck. Interventional radiologists commonly perform the procedure in a hospital or outpatient imaging setting; other physicians with the appropriate procedural role may also perform it. The catheter permits ongoing drainage rather than a one-time needle aspiration. Image guidance is part of the catheter-placement service.

Report this code for a percutaneous catheter placed to drain a soft-tissue collection, not for a collection in a visceral, retroperitoneal, or peritoneal site. Documentation should identify the collection and its location, the percutaneous approach, image guidance, and catheter placement. The code has a 0-day global period, so same-day preoperative and postoperative care is included. When multiple procedures are performed in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and other procedures are subject to the standard 50% reduction. Assistant-at-surgery payment requires documentation of medical necessity; co-surgeons and team surgery are not permitted.

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 Riverside, CA compares for 10030

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the office rate for 10030 runs from $541.97 in Arkansas to $855.06 in San Benito County, CA. Riverside, CA pays $670.71. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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10030 rates by state

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How the 10030 rate is calculated

Each of 10030’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 10030

The CMS indicators that decide how 10030 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 51

Codes related to 10030

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

How 10030 has changed in Riverside, CA

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Where the Riverside, CA rate applies

Riverside, CA is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 127 cities and communities in California. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Ontario
• Riverside
• San Bernardino
• Adelanto
• Aguanga
• Anza
• Apple Valley
• Baker

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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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