CPT code 50300: Donor kidney removal, deceased donor2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in California

CMS doesn’t publish an office rate for 50300 in California.

Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.

What 50300 covers

Code 50300 identifies surgical procurement of a kidney from a deceased donor. The donor-side procedure is distinct from recipient implantation and from backbench preparation of the recovered kidney. A transplant surgical team performs the removal as part of organ recovery. Code 50320 describes removal from a living donor, so donor status distinguishes the two removal codes. Code 50323 describes preparation of the recovered cadaver-donor graft, rather than its removal.

Medicare assigns status X, a statutory exclusion, because this is not a physician service under the Medicare statute; the physician fee schedule does not pay it. When covered, payment is under another fee schedule or payment system. The code identifies kidney removal and does not describe recipient implantation or graft preparation.

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.

Where 50300 pays more and less in California

The same RVUs, adjusted for each area’s costs. Open a locality for its calculation, history and nearby areas.

29 of 29 payment localities

How the 50300 rate is calculated

Each of 50300’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 50300

50300 has no global surgery period, no multiple-procedure, bilateral or assistant-at-surgery adjustment, and no professional/technical split. What changes the payment is where the service happens: the place of service on the claim decides whether Medicare pays the office or the facility rate.

50300 compared with similar codes

How to choose

50320Donor nephrectomyLiving donor, open approach

50300 is for kidney removal from a deceased donor; 50320 is for removal from a living donor.

50323Kidney graft preparationCadaver donor

50300 concerns removal of the kidney from a deceased donor. 50323 describes preparation of the recovered cadaver-donor graft.

50360Kidney transplantWithout recipient nephrectomy

50300 is donor-side kidney procurement. 50360 describes transplantation in the recipient without recipient nephrectomy.

50365Kidney transplantWith recipient nephrectomy

50300 is donor-side kidney procurement. 50365 describes transplantation in the recipient when recipient nephrectomy is performed.

Codes related to 50300

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

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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