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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01

A2012 Wound covering Medicare reimbursement rates in Maine

Report A2012 for Suprathel membrane used to cover a wound, measured by square centimeter and billed with the related primary procedure. Compare A2012 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 A2012 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

$117.08–$126.11

2 of 2 localities have a supported rate.

Lowest: Rest Of Maine

Highest: Southern Maine

A spread of $9.03 per service.

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 supplies

About A2012: Suprathel wound covering by area

Report A2012 for Suprathel membrane used to cover a wound, measured by square centimeter and billed with the related primary procedure.

Suprathel is a synthetic wound-covering membrane used in settings such as burn care and wound surgery. A burn surgeon or wound-care clinician may apply it over a partial-thickness burn or a split-thickness skin-graft donor site to cover the prepared wound surface. The product is reported by the square centimeter, rather than by the number of wounds or applications.

Report A2012 with the primary procedure for the service; for skin-substitute application, the relevant primary code may be 15271 or 15272 when its site and area criteria are met. Documentation should identify Suprathel, the treated site, the amount used in square centimeters, and the associated procedure. CMS classifies A2012 as an add-on code paid within the primary procedure’s global period. It is technical-component-only; a separate code covers interpretation.

CMS billing rules for A2012

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.

A2012 compared with similar codes

Office rates for Maine, from the same CMS release.

A2011

Wound product

Per square centimeter

$117.08–$126.11

A2011 identifies Supra SDRM, while A2012 identifies Suprathel. The product supplied, not the shared area-based unit, determines the code.

A2013

Wound matrix

InnovaMatrix FS, per square centimeter

$117.08–$126.11

A2013 identifies Innovamatrix FS. Use A2012 only when the product furnished is Suprathel.

15271

Skin substitute graft

First 25 cm², trunk/limbs

$147.16–$154.48

15271 reports a qualifying skin-substitute application procedure; A2012 reports the Suprathel product and is billed with a primary procedure.

Compare A2012 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.

2 of 2 payment localities

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

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A2012 billing questions

Can A2012 be billed by itself?

No. CMS identifies A2012 as an add-on code, so it is reported with the related primary procedure.

How many units should be reported?

Report the quantity in square centimeters. Document the wound area treated and the amount of Suprathel used.

Does A2012 include the application procedure?

A2012 reports the Suprathel product. Report it with the applicable primary procedure for the wound service.

How is the interpretation represented?

A2012 is designated technical-component-only, and CMS indicates that a separate code covers 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 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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