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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01

Q4140 BioD-Fence Medicare reimbursement rates in Kentucky

Reports BioD-Fence tissue matrix by treated area when clinicians apply the product to a wound or soft-tissue site with a primary procedure. Compare Q4140 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Kentucky.

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 Q4140 in Kentucky?

Kentucky 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

$113.13

1 of 1 localities have a supported rate.

Payment area: Kentucky

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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Skin substitute

About Q4140: BioD-Fence tissue matrix by area

Reports BioD-Fence tissue matrix by treated area when clinicians apply the product to a wound or soft-tissue site with a primary procedure.

Q4140 identifies BioD-Fence, a placental-derived tissue matrix supplied for application to a prepared wound or soft-tissue site. Clinicians may use it as a protective covering on wounds such as chronic ulcers or operative defects. The product code represents the material, not the work of preparing the site or applying the matrix; those services are represented by the related procedure code when separately reportable.

Report the product by the documented area used, with one unit representing one square centimeter. The record should identify BioD-Fence, the treated site, the area applied, and the associated primary procedure. CMS classifies Q4140 as an add-on code: submit it only with a primary procedure, and payment falls within that procedure’s global period. CMS also classifies it as technical-component-only, with a separate code covering interpretation.

CMS billing rules for Q4140

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.

Q4140 compared with similar codes

Office rates for Kentucky, from the same CMS release.

Q4138

Wound matrix

BioDflex DryFlex, per cm²

$113.13

Q4138 is for BioD-Fence DryFlex; Q4140 is for BioD-Fence. Match the claim to the product form documented.

Q4137

Wound matrix

Per square centimeter

$113.13

Q4137 reports AmnioExcel or BioDExcel by area. Use Q4140 when the product applied is BioD-Fence.

Q4139

Amnio or biodmatrix, inj 1cc

No office rate

Q4139 identifies injectable Amnio or BioDMatrix and uses a volume unit. Q4140 identifies BioD-Fence and is reported by area.

Compare Q4140 by payment locality

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1 of 1 payment localities

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

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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 Q4140 in Kentucky.

PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv

18,234

Code
Q4140
Physician work
0.00
Practice expense
3.81
Malpractice
0.00

GPCI2026.csv

55

Locality
Kentucky
Physician work
1.000
Practice expense
0.889
Malpractice
0.915
Office / nonfacility calculation for Q4140 in Kentucky
ComponentRVULocality factorAdjusted
Physician work0.00× 1.0000.0000
Practice expense3.81× 0.8893.3871
Malpractice0.00× 0.9150.0000
Total RVUs3.3871
Conversion factor× 33.4009

Office / nonfacility rate, Kentucky$113.13

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 expense3.810.889
Malpractice00.915

(0 × 1 + 3.81 × 0.889 + 0 × 0.915) × $33.4009 = $113.13

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.

Q4140 billing questions

Can Q4140 be billed by itself?

No. CMS identifies Q4140 as an add-on code, so it must be reported with a primary procedure.

How are units determined?

Report one unit for each square centimeter of BioD-Fence used. Document the treated area and the amount applied.

Does Q4140 include the application procedure?

No. Q4140 reports the BioD-Fence product; the associated wound or skin-substitute application procedure is reported separately when appropriate.

How does Q4140 differ from Q4138?

Q4140 identifies BioD-Fence, while Q4138 identifies the DryFlex form of BioD-Fence. Select the code that matches the product form used.

What does the technical-component classification mean?

CMS classifies Q4140 as technical-component-only, with interpretation covered by a separate code.

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 Q4140PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv, line 18,234 (RVU26D)
Geographic factors for KentuckyGPCI2026.csv, line 55 (RVU26D)