No office rate
33510 reports a single venous-graft bypass. Report 33572 in addition only when open coronary plaque removal is also documented.
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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01
33572 Coronary endarterectomy Medicare reimbursement rates in Michigan
Reports open removal of obstructive plaque from a coronary artery during bypass surgery when endarterectomy is performed alongside the primary procedure. Compare 33572 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Michigan.
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 33572 in Michigan?
Michigan 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
$211.51–$232.92
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.
Cardiac surgery
About 33572: Open coronary endarterectomy
Reports open removal of obstructive plaque from a coronary artery during bypass surgery when endarterectomy is performed alongside the primary procedure.
During open coronary surgery, the cardiac surgeon opens a diseased coronary artery and removes obstructive atherosclerotic plaque to improve the vessel lumen. This work is commonly performed during coronary artery bypass grafting when diffuse disease makes plaque removal necessary in addition to graft placement. It is a facility-based surgical service, not a separately performed office procedure.
Report 33572 only with an eligible primary procedure; it is not a standalone service. The operative report should identify the coronary artery treated and document the endarterectomy as work performed in addition to the bypass procedure. CMS treats payment for this add-on as part of the primary procedure’s global period. Do not use the graft count alone to infer that endarterectomy occurred: the operative documentation must support the plaque-removal work.
CMS billing rules for 33572
- 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 RVU4.33 · 69%
- Practice expense (office) RVU0.87 · 14%
- Malpractice RVU1.07 · 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.
33572 compared with similar codes
Office rates for Michigan, from the same CMS release.
No office rate
33533 reports a single arterial-graft bypass. It describes the grafting service, not coronary endarterectomy.
No office rate
33542 concerns removal of a heart lesion; 33572 concerns plaque removal from a coronary artery during open coronary surgery.
Compare 33572 by payment locality
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2 of 2 payment localities
Detroit →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$232.92
Rest Of Michigan →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$211.51
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33572 billing questions
Can 33572 be reported by itself?
No. It is an add-on code and must be reported with a primary procedure, commonly a coronary artery bypass procedure.
What documentation supports reporting 33572?
The operative report should describe open plaque removal from a coronary artery and identify the vessel treated, in addition to the bypass work.
Is endarterectomy included in the bypass graft count?
The bypass code describes the grafting service, while 33572 reports separately performed coronary plaque-removal work. A bypass graft count by itself does not establish that an endarterectomy was performed.
Does 33572 have its own global period?
CMS payment for this add-on is within the primary procedure’s global period.
Is 33572 the same as removing a heart lesion?
No. 33572 concerns plaque removal from a coronary artery during open coronary surgery; 33542 describes removal of a heart lesion.
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.
4,00433545,,Repair of heart damage,A,,55.63,16.88,NA,16.88,,13.36,85.87,85.87,0,090,0.09,0.84,0.07,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
4,00533548,,Restore/remodel ventricle,A,,52.79,17.63,NA,17.63,,12.68,83.10,83.10,0,090,0.09,0.84,0.07,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
4,0063354F,,Clin sig dep sym by dep tool,I,,0.00,0.00,,0.00,,0.00,0.00,0.00,9,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,9,9,9,9,9,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
4,00733572,,Open coronary endarterectomy,A,,4.33,0.87,NA,0.87,,1.07,6.27,6.27,0,ZZZ,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,2,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
4,00833600,,Closure of valve,A,,29.55,11.68,NA,11.68,,7.44,48.67,48.67,0,090,0.09,0.84,0.07,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
4,00933602,,Closure of valve,A,,28.61,11.49,NA,11.49,,7.22,47.32,47.32,0,090,0.09,0.84,0.07,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
4,01033606,,Anastomosis/artery-aorta,A,,30.74,11.74,NA,11.74,,7.74,50.22,50.22,0,090,0.09,0.84,0.07,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00