CPT code 35905: Graft excision, thoracic site2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in North Carolina

In North Carolina, Medicare pays $1,415.29 for 35905 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 35905 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 35905 covers

This service involves surgically removing infected vascular graft material located in the thorax. A vascular surgeon commonly performs it in a hospital operating room for infection involving a prior thoracic vascular reconstruction, including an aortic graft. The operative report should identify the graft’s thoracic location, the evidence of infection, and the graft material removed.

Select this code by the location of the infected graft, not by the original operation or the access incision. Documentation should support both the infection and the excision performed. Medicare assigns a 90-day global period, including the day-before preoperative visit and 90 days of related postoperative care. When multiple procedures occur in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and other procedures are subject to the standard 50% reduction. Do not use modifier 50 for this service. Assistant-at-surgery payment may be available; co-surgeon payment requires supporting documentation, and team surgery is 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 North Carolina compares for 35905

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 35905 runs from $1,326.87 in Wisconsin to $1,959.25 in Miami, FL. North Carolina pays $1,415.29. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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35905 rates by state

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

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How the 35905 rate is calculated

Each of 35905’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 35905

35905 has a 90-day global period: related visits in that window are included in the surgery payment.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 51

Codes related to 35905

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

How 35905 has changed in North Carolina

Price 35905 for an earlier date of service

Where the North Carolina rate applies

North Carolina is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 785 cities and communities in North Carolina. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Aberdeen
• Advance
• Ahoskie
• Alamance
• Albemarle
• Alexis
• Alliance
• Altamahaw

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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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