HCPCS G0141: Cytology screeningMedicare rate & RVUs in Georgia
Reports cervical or vaginal screening cytology when an automated system screens the specimen, a person manually rescreens it, and a physician interprets it.
Medicare pays $22.45–$24.39 for G0141 in the office in Georgia, from Rest Of Georgia to Atlanta. Which amount applies depends on the service address.
Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.
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What G0141 covers
G0141 covers laboratory screening of a cervical or vaginal cytology specimen using automated screening followed by manual rescreening, with physician interpretation. It is used for Pap screening workflows in which those steps are part of the service. Cytotechnologists typically perform the screening and rescreening, with a pathologist or other qualified physician providing the interpretation. The specimen may be collected in a physician’s office or another clinical setting and processed by a cytology laboratory.
Select G0141 when the documented workflow includes automated screening, manual rescreening, and physician interpretation; it is not a code for specimen collection alone. Documentation should identify the cervical or vaginal specimen and support the screening purpose and review steps performed. Report the workflow as one cytology service rather than separately reporting its automated screening, manual rescreening, and interpretation stages. The CMS facts supplied for this code list no special payment instruction to explain beyond its assigned fee schedule values.
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 G0141 pays more and less in Georgia
| Payment locality | Office | Facility |
|---|---|---|
| Atlanta | $24.39 | $24.39 |
| Rest Of Georgia | $22.45 | $22.45 |
How the G0141 rate is calculated
Each of G0141’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.
How the rate is built · G0141
RVUs × geographic indexes × conversion factor
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Work 0.25Practice expense 0.46Malpractice 0.01
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Payment rules and modifiers for G0141
G0141 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.
Place of service · G0141
Which rate does Medicare pay?
The POS code on the claim line (CMS-1500 box 24B).
Non-facility (office) rate · national
$24.05
The facility rate would be $24.05 (−$0.00). In a facility, the facility bills its own costs separately.
G0141 compared with similar codes
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G0141 vs G0147 vs G0148 vs G0143: national Medicare rates
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How to choose
- G0147Scr c/v cyto, automated sys
- G0141 includes manual rescreening and physician interpretation after automated screening. G0147 identifies screening performed by an automated system.
- G0148Scr c/v cyto, autosys, rescr
- Both describe automated screening and manual rescreening, but G0141 also includes physician interpretation.
- G0143Scr c/v cyto,thinlayer,rescr
- G0143 is associated with automated thin-layer preparation. G0141 identifies automated screening, manual rescreening, and physician interpretation.
G0141 billing questions
When should G0141 be selected instead of G0147?
Use G0141 when the workflow includes automated screening, manual rescreening, and physician interpretation. G0147 describes screening by an automated system and does not identify the same manual-rescreening workflow.
How does G0141 differ from G0148?
G0148 describes automated screening with manual rescreening. G0141 also includes physician interpretation, so the documented service must support that interpretation.
Can the review steps be billed separately?
G0141 represents the combined screening, manual rescreening, and physician interpretation workflow. Do not split those stages into separate G0141 lines.
What documentation supports reporting G0141?
The record should identify a cervical or vaginal screening cytology specimen and support automated screening, manual rescreening, and physician interpretation.
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.
CMS RVU26D · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027
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