CPT code 33210: Temporary pacing, single-chamber transvenous wire2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Arkansas

In Arkansas, Medicare pays $127.31 for 33210 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 33210 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 33210 covers

This service covers placing or replacing a temporary pacing electrode through a vein and positioning it in the heart for single-chamber pacing, usually ventricular pacing. Cardiologists and other physicians who manage acute rhythm problems commonly perform it in a hospital for situations such as significant symptomatic bradycardia or high-grade heart block, including while a patient awaits a longer-term pacing plan.

Report this code for the temporary transvenous single-chamber electrode service, not implantation of a permanent pacemaker system. Documentation should identify the temporary pacing indication, transvenous approach, chamber configuration, and whether the wire was placed or replaced. CMS assigns a 0-day global period, so same-day preoperative and postoperative care is included. When this procedure and other procedures occur in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and the others are subject to the standard 50% multiple-procedure reduction. Medicare does not pay an assistant at surgery for this service; 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 Arkansas compares for 33210

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 33210 runs from $124.77 in Wisconsin to $181.75 in Alaska. Arkansas pays $127.31. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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33210 rates by state

Office rate range in each state. Select a state to see its payment localities.

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How the 33210 rate is calculated

Each of 33210’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 33210

The CMS indicators that decide how 33210 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 51

Codes related to 33210

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

How 33210 has changed in Arkansas

Price 33210 for an earlier date of service

Where the Arkansas rate applies

Arkansas is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 626 cities and communities in Arkansas. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Acorn
• Adona
• Alexander
• Alicia
• Alix
• Alleene
• Allport
• Alma

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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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