CPT code 36902: Dialysis access angioplasty, peripheral segment2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Alaska

In Alaska, Medicare pays $1,324.21 for 36902 in the office and $279.82 when it’s performed in a hospital or facility.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 36902 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 36902 covers

An interventional radiologist or vascular surgeon uses needle or catheter access to evaluate a hemodialysis fistula or graft and perform balloon angioplasty for a stenosis in its peripheral dialysis segment. These procedures commonly address access dysfunction, such as impaired flow or elevated circuit pressures, and are performed in an angiography suite or hospital outpatient setting. The code includes the diagnostic imaging and catheter placement needed to evaluate the circuit during the intervention.

Report this code when balloon angioplasty is performed in the peripheral segment; the documented lesion location and treatment should support that selection. Diagnostic angiography of the same circuit is included rather than separately reported as a diagnostic-only service. Medicare assigns a 0-day global period, so same-day preoperative and postoperative care is included. When separate procedures are performed in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and others at 50%. Medicare does not pay assistant-at-surgery services, co-surgeons, or team surgery for this code.

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 Alaska compares for 36902

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the office rate for 36902 runs from $1,036.76 in Arkansas to $1,643.03 in San Benito County, CA. Alaska pays $1,324.21. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

Every other payment area

36902 rates by state

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

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How the 36902 rate is calculated

Each of 36902’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 36902

The CMS indicators that decide how 36902 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 51

Codes related to 36902

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

How 36902 has changed in Alaska

Price 36902 for an earlier date of service

Where the Alaska rate applies

Alaska is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 355 cities and communities in Alaska. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Adak
• Akhiok
• Akiachak
• Akiak
• Akutan
• Alakanuk
• Alatna
• Alcan Border

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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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