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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01

47125 Liver resection Medicare reimbursement rates in Georgia

Report this operation when a surgeon removes the entire left lobe of the liver, rather than performing a smaller or more extensive resection. Compare 47125 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Georgia.

Amounts below use the non-QP conversion factor for participating physicians. These are base physician payments before claim-level adjustments, not patient costs or total hospital charges.

What does Medicare pay for 47125 in Georgia?

Georgia has 2 payment localities in this comparison. Use the service location to choose the applicable amount. These are the supported base rates for the 2 payment areas shown below, using the same CMS release.

Office / nonfacility

No supported rate

Facility setting

$2840.64–$2931.15

2 of 2 localities have a supported rate.

Lowest: Rest Of Georgia

Highest: Atlanta

A spread of $90.51 per service.

These are locality ranges, not averages or address-specific quotes. A facility-setting amount covers the physician service; it does not include a hospital’s separate bill. Choose a locality below to inspect its calculation, compare other payment areas, or price a percentage of Medicare.

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Hepatobiliary surgery

About 47125: Total left liver lobectomy

Report this operation when a surgeon removes the entire left lobe of the liver, rather than performing a smaller or more extensive resection.

This code describes a formal resection of the liver’s entire left lobe, typically performed by a hepatobiliary or other surgeon in an operating room. It may be used to remove a localized liver tumor or other diseased tissue when the planned and completed operation involves the full left lobe. The operative report should make the resection extent clear; the size or number of lesions alone does not establish the code.

Select this code from the documented anatomy and extent of resection, distinguishing a complete left lobectomy from a partial lobectomy, trisegmentectomy, or complete right lobectomy. The day-before preoperative visit and 90 days of related postoperative care are included in the major-surgery global period. When multiple procedures occur in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and other procedures are subject to the standard 50% reduction. An assistant at surgery may be paid. Co-surgeon payment requires supporting documentation, and team surgery is not permitted.

CMS billing rules for 47125

Global period
Major surgery with a 90-day global period: the day-before preoperative visit and 90 days of related postoperative care are included.
Multiple procedures
Standard multiple procedure reduction: the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and others at 50% when performed in the same session.
Bilateral procedures
Bilateral adjustment does not apply; the descriptor or anatomy makes modifier 50 inappropriate.
Assistant at surgery
Assistant at surgery may be paid.
Co-surgeons
Co-surgeons paid only with supporting documentation.
Team surgery
Team surgery not permitted.

Where the value comes from

  • Work RVU51.71 · 61%
  • Practice expense (office) RVU19.64 · 23%
  • Malpractice RVU13.27 · 16%

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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.

47125 compared with similar codes

Office rates for Georgia, from the same CMS release.

47120

Liver resection

Partial hepatectomy

No office rate

47120 describes a partial lobectomy. Report 47125 when the operative report supports removal of the entire left lobe.

47122

Liver resection

Trisegmentectomy

No office rate

47122 describes a trisegmentectomy, not a complete left lobectomy. Base selection on the resection anatomy documented by the surgeon.

47130

Liver resection

With hepatic duct reconstruction

No office rate

47130 describes a complete right lobectomy; 47125 is the corresponding code for the left lobe.

Compare 47125 by payment locality

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2 of 2 payment localities

Office and facility base rates · shared scale starting at $0

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47125 billing questions

How does this differ from 47120?

47125 describes removal of the entire left lobe. Use 47120 for a partial lobectomy when the documented resection is smaller.

When would 47122 be the better choice?

47122 is for a trisegmentectomy. Choose based on the anatomic extent documented in the operative report, not simply the tumor’s size.

How do I distinguish this from 47130?

Both describe a complete lobectomy, but 47125 is for the left lobe and 47130 is for the right lobe.

What postoperative care is included?

The major-surgery global period includes the day-before preoperative visit and 90 days of related postoperative care.

Can an assistant or co-surgeon be reported?

An assistant at surgery may be paid. Co-surgeon payment requires supporting documentation; team surgery is not permitted.

Where these rates come from

FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense, and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indices and the applicable conversion factor. Unavailable or separately priced services are labeled rather than assigned a made-up amount.

Source: RVU26D. Effective 2026-10-01 through the day before 2027-01-01.

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