CPT code 36410: Skilled venipuncture, age three or older2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Connecticut

In Connecticut, Medicare pays $20.25 for 36410 in the office and $8.38 when it’s performed in a hospital or facility.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 36410 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 36410 covers

CPT 36410 represents a skilled needle puncture of a vein for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes in a patient age three or older. A physician or qualified health care professional performs it when the access requires that level of skill, such as a difficult venous draw for laboratory testing or access needed for treatment. It is not the routine venous blood collection performed through ordinary venipuncture.

Select the code based on the patient’s age, purpose, and documented need for skilled venous access. The record should identify the diagnostic or therapeutic reason and support why the puncture required physician or qualified professional skill rather than routine collection. When multiple procedures subject to the standard reduction are performed in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and the others at 50%.

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 Connecticut compares for 36410

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the office rate for 36410 runs from $16.97 in Arkansas to $24.85 in San Benito County, CA. Connecticut pays $20.25. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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36410 rates by state

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

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How the 36410 rate is calculated

Each of 36410’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 36410

The CMS indicators that decide how 36410 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 51

Codes related to 36410

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

How 36410 has changed in Connecticut

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Where the Connecticut rate applies

Connecticut is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 215 cities and communities in Connecticut. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Ansonia
• Ball Pond
• Baltic
• Bantam
• Bethel
• Bethlehem Village
• Bigelow Corners
• Blue Hills

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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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