CPT code 61737: Laser ablation, multiple trajectories or complex lesions2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in New Mexico

In New Mexico, Medicare pays $1,387.78 for 61737 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 61737 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 61737 covers

A neurosurgeon uses stereotactic planning to guide laser probes through one or more small cranial openings and heat targeted intracranial tissue. The technique may be used for selected brain tumors or epileptogenic lesions when thermal ablation is the planned treatment. This code represents the more involved LITT service, such as treatment requiring multiple trajectories or addressing multiple or complex lesions; it is not the single-trajectory, single-simple-lesion service.

Select the code from the operative plan and report: documentation should identify the lesion or lesions treated, their relevant complexity, the trajectories used, and the ablation performed. The stereotactic work integral to the LITT service is not separately reported as another portion of this procedure. CMS assigns a 0-day global period, so same-day preoperative and postoperative care is included. For a qualifying bilateral procedure, modifier 50 applies and Medicare pays at 150%. Assistant-at-surgery payment requires documented medical necessity; 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 New Mexico compares for 61737

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 61737 runs from $1,121.80 in Wisconsin to $1,838.86 in Miami, FL. New Mexico pays $1,387.78. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

Every other payment area

61737 rates by state

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

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How the 61737 rate is calculated

Each of 61737’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 61737

The CMS indicators that decide how 61737 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 50

Codes related to 61737

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

How 61737 has changed in New Mexico

Price 61737 for an earlier date of service

Where the New Mexico rate applies

New Mexico is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 528 cities and communities in New Mexico. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Abeytas
• Abiquiu
• Acomita Lake
• Adelino
• Agua Fria
• Alamillo
• Alamo
• Alamogordo

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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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