HCPCS code J2516: Pentamidine injection, per 1 mg2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Redding, CA

CMS doesn’t publish a rate for J2516 in Redding, CA.

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Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.

What J2516 covers

Pentamidine isethionate is an injectable antimicrobial used most commonly to treat Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, particularly in immunocompromised patients. A clinician administers the drug by injection, commonly by IV infusion for this infection, in a hospital or outpatient setting. This code identifies the drug, not the administration service. The inhaled form of pentamidine is represented by a different HCPCS code.

CMS excludes this code from the physician fee schedule under status E. When Medicare covers the drug, it pays through another payment method; HCPCS classifies it as a Part B drug generally paid using CMS quarterly Average Sales Price drug pricing files. Coverage is left to the Medicare contractor’s judgment. Each billing unit represents 1 mg of pentamidine isethionate, so report the number of milligrams administered as the corresponding number of units.

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 Redding, CA compares for J2516

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How the J2516 rate is calculated

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Payment rules and modifiers for J2516

J2516 has no global surgery period, no multiple-procedure, bilateral or assistant-at-surgery adjustment, and no professional/technical split. What changes the payment is where the service happens: the place of service on the claim decides whether Medicare pays the office or the facility rate.

Codes related to J2516

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

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Where the Redding, CA rate applies

Redding, CA is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 32 cities and communities in California. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Redding
• Anderson
• Bella Vista
• Big Bend
• Burney
• Cassel
• Castella
• Centerville

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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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