CPT code 93581: VSD closure, transcatheter2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Alaska

In Alaska, Medicare pays $1,467.77 for 93581 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 93581 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 93581 covers

This code represents catheter-based treatment to close a ventricular septal defect, an opening between the heart’s ventricles. A congenital or structural interventional cardiologist typically performs the procedure in a hospital catheterization laboratory, using imaging to guide delivery of a closure device through a catheter. The service is used for a VSD selected for transcatheter closure rather than open surgical repair.

Report it for the VSD closure performed, and document the defect, catheter-based approach, closure method, and procedural findings. The code has a 0-day global period, so same-day preoperative and postoperative care is included. When multiple procedures are performed in one 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. 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 Alaska compares for 93581

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 93581 runs from $1,007.14 in Wisconsin to $1,467.77 in Alaska. Alaska pays $1,467.77. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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93581 rates by state

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

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How the 93581 rate is calculated

Each of 93581’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 93581

The CMS indicators that decide how 93581 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 51

Codes related to 93581

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

How 93581 has changed in Alaska

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Where the Alaska rate applies

Alaska is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 355 cities and communities in Alaska. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Adak
• Akhiok
• Akiachak
• Akiak
• Akutan
• Alakanuk
• Alatna
• Alcan Border

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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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