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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01

Q4330 Wound graft Medicare reimbursement rates in Iowa

Reports Total wound graft material by square centimeter when supplied for application to a wound during a primary wound procedure. Compare Q4330 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Iowa.

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 Q4330 in Iowa?

Iowa has 1 payment locality in this comparison. Use the service location to choose the applicable amount. These are the supported base rates for the payment area shown below, using the same CMS release.

Office / nonfacility

$116.44

1 of 1 localities have a supported rate.

Payment area: Iowa

One mapped payment locality.

Facility setting

No supported rate

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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Wound care supply

About Q4330: Total wound graft material

Reports Total wound graft material by square centimeter when supplied for application to a wound during a primary wound procedure.

Q4330 identifies Total, a wound graft or skin-substitute product, measured per square centimeter. A wound-care clinician, podiatrist, surgeon, or other treating practitioner may use the material on a wound bed as part of wound treatment. The product code identifies the material; it does not describe the clinical work of preparing the wound or applying the graft.

Report the number of square centimeters supported by the record, along with the primary procedure for the wound application. Documentation should identify Total as the product used and support the amount applied, such as through the treated wound’s dimensions and the amount of material used. CMS designates Q4330 as an add-on code: it must be billed with a primary procedure, and payment falls within that procedure’s global period. CMS also classifies it as technical-component-only; interpretation is represented by a separate code, not Q4330.

CMS billing rules for Q4330

Global period
Add-on code: billed only together with a primary procedure and paid within that procedure's global period.
Professional and technical components
Technical-component-only code: a separate code covers interpretation.

Where the value comes from

  • Work RVU0.00 · 0%
  • Practice expense (office) RVU3.81 · 100%
  • Malpractice RVU0.00 · 0%

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.

Q4330 compared with similar codes

Office rates for Iowa, from the same CMS release.

Q4329

Wound graft

Singlay, per square centimeter

$116.44

Q4329 identifies Singlay, while Q4330 identifies Total. Match the reported product to the product documented as used.

Q4331

Wound matrix

Axolotl, per square centimeter

$116.44

Q4331 identifies Axolotl graft rather than Total. These product-specific codes are not interchangeable based only on the wound site.

15271

Skin substitute graft

First 25 cm², trunk/limbs

$145.07

15271 reports the application service for qualifying trunk, arm, or leg wounds; Q4330 identifies the Total material supplied for that service.

Compare Q4330 by payment locality

Find the payment area for your service address, then open its rate page for calculation inputs, release history and the percentage-of-Medicare tool. A city may cross payment-area boundaries; the ZIP lookup above helps resolve the location.

1 of 1 payment localities

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

    Office / nonfacility

    $116.44

    Facility

    Unavailable

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How this local rate is calculated

Each RVU component is multiplied by its own geographic practice cost index (GPCI). The three adjusted components are added, then multiplied by the conversion factor. These are the inputs used for Q4330 in Iowa.

PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv

18,417

Code
Q4330
Physician work
0.00
Practice expense
3.81
Malpractice
0.00

GPCI2026.csv

53

Locality
Iowa
Physician work
1.000
Practice expense
0.915
Malpractice
0.397
Office / nonfacility calculation for Q4330 in Iowa
ComponentRVULocality factorAdjusted
Physician work0.00× 1.0000.0000
Practice expense3.81× 0.9153.4862
Malpractice0.00× 0.3970.0000
Total RVUs3.4862
Conversion factor× 33.4009

Office / nonfacility rate, Iowa$116.44

Values as parsed from CMS release RVU26D, effective 2026-10-01. The amount is rounded to the nearest cent only at the end.
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Office / nonfacility

Office / nonfacility calculation inputs
ComponentRVULocal GPCI
Work01
Practice expense3.810.915
Malpractice00.397

(0 × 1 + 3.81 × 0.915 + 0 × 0.397) × $33.4009 = $116.44

The office and facility calculations use their respective practice-expense RVUs. The facility amount here is the physician fee, not a separate hospital or facility bill.

Q4330 billing questions

What primary service should accompany Q4330?

Report Q4330 with the primary procedure for applying the wound graft material, such as an appropriate skin-substitute application service. Q4330 identifies the Total product, not the application work.

How should the quantity be determined?

The code is measured per square centimeter. Record the amount of Total used and the treated wound area so the reported quantity is supported.

How is Q4330 different from Q4331?

Q4330 identifies Total; Q4331 identifies Axolotl graft. Select the code matching the product actually used and documented.

Is interpretation included in Q4330?

No. CMS classifies Q4330 as technical-component-only and indicates that a separate code covers interpretation.

Does Q4330 have a separate global period?

No separate period is described for Q4330. CMS treats it as an add-on paid within the primary procedure’s global period.

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.

RVUs for Q4330PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv, line 18,417 (RVU26D)
Geographic factors for IowaGPCI2026.csv, line 53 (RVU26D)