CPT code 36625: Arterial catheter, cutdown approach2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Connecticut

In Connecticut, Medicare pays $100.43 for 36625 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 36625 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 36625 covers

This service places a catheter in an artery after the physician surgically exposes the vessel through an incision. It supports arterial blood sampling, continuous pressure monitoring, or transfusion when access is obtained by cutdown rather than a percutaneous approach. It is most often performed by a surgeon or other physician in a facility setting, including during an operation or acute-care treatment.

Choose this code when the documentation supports arterial catheterization by cutdown for sampling, monitoring, or transfusion; a percutaneous approach points to a different code, and long-term catheter use has a separate code. Record the artery, the cutdown approach, the catheter placement, and its clinical purpose. CMS assigns a 0-day global period, so same-day preoperative and postoperative care is included. Modifier 50 is inappropriate. Medicare does not pay an assistant at surgery, and 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 Connecticut compares for 36625

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 36625 runs from $87.24 in Wisconsin to $126.00 in Alaska. Connecticut pays $100.43. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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36625 rates by state

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How the 36625 rate is calculated

Each of 36625’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 36625

The CMS indicators that decide how 36625 is paid alongside other services.

Codes related to 36625

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

How 36625 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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