Billing code 47350: Liver wound repairMedicare rate & RVUs

Medicare pays $1,285.60 for 47350 nationally in a facility.

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

What 47350 covers

This service covers operative repair of a limited liver wound, such as a traumatic laceration managed with sutures, packing, or both. It is typically performed by a trauma or general surgeon during emergency abdominal surgery, often after blunt or penetrating injury. The operative report should identify the liver injury and describe the repair performed, including whether packing was used and whether the surgeon undertook more extensive exploration, debridement, or additional vascular or biliary procedures.

Report this code when the documented repair fits the limited-wound level rather than a more extensive liver-wound repair code. It has a 90-day global period: the day-before preoperative visit and 90 days of related postoperative care are included. 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 50% reduction. Assistant-at-surgery payment may be made; co-surgeons require supporting documentation, and team-surgery payment is not permitted. Modifier 50 is inappropriate for this code.

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.

Where 47350 pays more and less

The same RVUs, adjusted for each area’s costs. Open a locality for its calculation, history and nearby areas.

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47350 rates by state

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How the 47350 rate is calculated

Each of 47350’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 47350

47350 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

47350 compared with similar codes

How to choose

47360Liver wound repair

Choose 47350 for a limited repair. The more extensive wound exploration, debridement, or foreign-body removal associated with 47360 distinguishes that code.

47361Liver repair

This code is for limited wound repair. Use 47361 when the documented liver-wound repair includes hepatic artery ligation.

47362Liver wound repair

This code covers limited wound repair. Code 47362 describes a repair that also includes hepatic artery ligation and a biliary procedure.

Codes related to 47350

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

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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