CPT code 61760: Depth electrodes, long-term seizure monitoring2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico, Medicare pays $1,555.22 for 61760 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 61760 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 61760 covers

A neurosurgeon uses stereotactic planning to place depth electrodes into the cerebrum so seizure activity can be recorded from inside the brain over an extended monitoring period. The procedure is commonly performed in a hospital operating room for patients with difficult-to-control focal epilepsy undergoing presurgical evaluation. The electrodes help identify where seizures begin and how they spread, information that can guide later treatment planning.

Report the implantation service, supported by the operative note’s indication and description of the stereotactic placement. The code has a 90-day global period, including the day-before preoperative visit and related postoperative care during that period. When multiple procedures are performed in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and other procedures are subject to the standard multiple-procedure reduction. Modifier 50 is inappropriate for this code. Medicare does not pay an assistant at surgery; co-surgeons are permitted, while team surgery is 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 Puerto Rico compares for 61760

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 61760 runs from $1,319.54 in Wisconsin to $2,045.71 in Miami, FL. Puerto Rico pays $1,555.22. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

Every other payment area

61760 rates by state

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

See 61760 in every payment locality

How the 61760 rate is calculated

Each of 61760’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 61760

61760 has a 90-day global period: related visits in that window are included in the surgery payment.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 51

Codes related to 61760

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

How 61760 has changed in Puerto Rico

Price 61760 for an earlier date of service

Where the Puerto Rico rate applies

Puerto Rico is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 292 cities and communities in Puerto Rico. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Aceitunas
• Adjuntas
• Aguada
• Aguadilla
• Aguas Buenas
• Aguas Claras
• Aguilita
• Aibonito

Browse all communities in Puerto Rico

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

Open CMS sourceHow we calculate rates