No office rate
Use 32486 for a sleeve lobectomy that includes bronchial resection and reconstruction. Code 32501 represents additional bronchial repair or reconstruction reported with a primary procedure.
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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01
32501 Bronchial repair Medicare reimbursement rates in Maine
Add-on reporting for bronchial repair or reconstruction performed as part of a larger thoracic operation, rather than as a standalone service. Compare 32501 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Maine.
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 32501 in Maine?
Maine 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
$203.86–$206.34
2 of 2 localities have a 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.
Thoracic surgery
About 32501: Additional bronchial reconstruction
Add-on reporting for bronchial repair or reconstruction performed as part of a larger thoracic operation, rather than as a standalone service.
This add-on represents repair or reconstruction of a bronchus performed during a larger thoracic operation. It is typically performed by a thoracic surgeon in the operating room when the operative plan requires bronchial reconstruction in addition to the primary procedure. The work concerns the airway itself, not removal of lung tissue alone; a wedge resection or other lung resection does not by itself support this service.
Report 32501 only with a qualifying primary procedure, and document the bronchial work separately enough to show what was repaired or reconstructed and why it was part of the operation. The operative report should identify the bronchus and describe the reconstruction, along with the primary procedure. CMS classifies this as an add-on code: it is billed only with a primary procedure and payment falls within that procedure’s global period.
CMS billing rules for 32501
- Global period
- Add-on code: billed only together with a primary procedure and paid within that procedure's global period.
Where the value comes from
- Work RVU4.56 · 69%
- Practice expense (office) RVU0.90 · 14%
- Malpractice RVU1.15 · 17%
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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.
32501 compared with similar codes
Office rates for Maine, from the same CMS release.
No office rate
32482 reports removal of a lung lobe. It does not by itself describe separate bronchial repair or reconstruction.
No office rate
32505 describes a wedge resection of lung tissue. It is not the code for reconstructing a bronchus.
Compare 32501 by payment locality
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2 of 2 payment localities
Rest Of Maine →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$203.86
Southern Maine →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$206.34
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32501 billing questions
Can 32501 be billed by itself?
No. CMS identifies it as an add-on code, so it must be reported with a primary procedure.
Does a lung resection alone support 32501?
No. The documentation must show bronchial repair or reconstruction in addition to the primary operation; lung tissue removal alone is not this service.
What should the operative note document?
Identify the bronchus and describe the repair or reconstruction, its medical or operative purpose, and the primary procedure performed during the same operation.
How does the global period affect payment?
CMS pays this add-on within the global period of the primary procedure. It is not paid as a standalone service.
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.
3,71832486,,Sleeve lobectomy,A,,41.81,12.79,NA,12.79,,10.55,65.15,65.15,0,090,0.10,0.76,0.14,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
3,71932488,,Completion pneumonectomy,A,,41.92,14.55,NA,14.55,,10.57,67.04,67.04,0,090,0.10,0.76,0.14,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
3,72032491,,Lung volume reduction,R,,24.61,11.33,NA,11.33,,6.20,42.14,42.14,0,090,0.10,0.76,0.14,2,1,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
3,72132501,,Repair bronchus add-on,A,,4.56,0.90,NA,0.90,,1.15,6.61,6.61,0,ZZZ,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
3,72232503,,Resect apical lung tumor,A,,30.95,11.93,NA,11.93,,7.81,50.69,50.69,0,090,0.10,0.76,0.14,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
3,72332504,,Resect apical lung tum/chest,A,,35.63,12.85,NA,12.85,,8.99,57.47,57.47,0,090,0.10,0.76,0.14,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
3,72432505,,Wedge resect of lung initial,A,,15.36,7.62,NA,7.62,,3.81,26.79,26.79,0,090,0.10,0.76,0.14,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00