CPT code 63048: Spinal decompression, each additional vertebral segment2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Arkansas

In Arkansas, Medicare pays $164.24 for 63048 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 63048 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 63048 covers

Code 63048 captures each additional vertebral segment decompressed after the first during an extensive laminectomy, facetectomy, and foraminotomy for spinal canal or nerve-root compression. The work may include removing lamina and facet bone and enlarging the foramen to free the spinal cord, cauda equina, or nerve roots. Neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons commonly perform this operation in an operating room for multilevel stenosis. It can accompany cervical, thoracic, or lumbar primary decompression codes.

Report 63048 only with the applicable primary code—63045, 63046, or 63047—and only for segments beyond the first. The operative report should identify the spinal region and each decompressed vertebral segment and support the extent of bony decompression, rather than a limited laminotomy alone. Count additional segments, not sides; bilateral work at one segment does not create another segment. As an add-on, it is paid within the primary procedure's 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 Arkansas compares for 63048

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 63048 runs from $160.37 in Wisconsin to $245.10 in Miami, FL. Arkansas pays $164.24. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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63048 rates by state

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

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How the 63048 rate is calculated

Each of 63048’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 63048

The CMS indicators that decide how 63048 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 80

Codes related to 63048

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

How 63048 has changed in Arkansas

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Where the Arkansas rate applies

Arkansas is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 626 cities and communities in Arkansas. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Acorn
• Adona
• Alexander
• Alicia
• Alix
• Alleene
• Allport
• Alma

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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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