CPT code 61782: Cranial navigation, extradural2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Mississippi

In Mississippi, Medicare pays $136.75 for 61782 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 61782 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 61782 covers

This add-on describes computer-assisted navigation during cranial surgery performed outside the dura. The surgeon uses a registered imaging dataset and tracked instruments to orient the operative approach or guide work around structures such as the skull base. It may support an extradural anterior cranial fossa operation, including a craniofacial approach, when navigation is actually used. Neurosurgeons and other surgeons performing cranial procedures may use it in an operating room.

Report 61782 with the qualifying primary cranial procedure, not by itself. Documentation should identify the navigation service and its use during the extradural operation; routine review of imaging alone does not establish that the navigation service was performed. Select this code for extradural cranial navigation rather than the intradural cranial or spinal navigation sibling. CMS treats it as an add-on paid within the primary procedure's global period, so it is not a separately payable service outside that global period.

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 Mississippi compares for 61782

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 61782 runs from $132.59 in Wisconsin to $190.81 in Alaska. Mississippi pays $136.75. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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61782 rates by state

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How the 61782 rate is calculated

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Payment rules and modifiers for 61782

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Codes related to 61782

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How 61782 has changed in Mississippi

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Where the Mississippi rate applies

Mississippi is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 427 cities and communities in Mississippi. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Abbeville
• Aberdeen
• Ackerman
• Agricola
• Alcorn State University
• Algoma
• Alligator
• Amory

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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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