CPT code 33897: Aortic angioplasty, native or recurrent coarctation2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Nevada

In Nevada, Medicare pays $487.69 for 33897 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 33897 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 33897 covers

This service treats a narrowed segment of the aorta caused by native or recurrent coarctation. An interventional cardiologist advances a balloon catheter through percutaneous vascular access to the narrowed area and inflates it to widen the vessel. The procedure is typically performed in a hospital cardiac catheterization lab, including for patients with congenital heart disease who need treatment of aortic narrowing.

Report the code when balloon angioplasty is performed for native or recurrent aortic coarctation; documentation should identify the coarctation and describe the catheter-based dilation. The 0-day global period includes same-day preoperative and postoperative care. When multiple procedures are performed in one session, Medicare pays the highest-valued procedure in full and applies the multiple procedure reduction to the others. Modifier 50 is inappropriate for this aortic service. Assistant-at-surgery payment requires documented 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 Nevada compares for 33897

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 33897 runs from $440.69 in Wisconsin to $644.17 in Alaska. Nevada pays $487.69. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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33897 rates by state

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How the 33897 rate is calculated

Each of 33897’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 33897

The CMS indicators that decide how 33897 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 51

Codes related to 33897

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

How 33897 has changed in Nevada

Price 33897 for an earlier date of service

Where the Nevada rate applies

Nevada is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 138 cities and communities in Nevada. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Alamo
• Amargosa Valley
• Austin
• Baker
• Battle Mountain
• Beatty
• Beaverdam
• Bennett Springs

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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.

CMS RVU26D · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027

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