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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01

65140 Ocular implant Medicare reimbursement rates in Missouri

Reports secondary attachment of an ocular implant in an anophthalmic socket, rather than implant placement performed during removal of the eye. Compare 65140 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Missouri.

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 65140 in Missouri?

Missouri has 3 payment localities in this comparison. Use the service location to choose the applicable amount. These are the supported base rates for the 3 payment areas shown below, using the same CMS release.

Office / nonfacility

No supported rate

Facility setting

$756.09–$801.09

3 of 3 localities have a supported rate.

Lowest: Rest Of Missouri

Highest: Metropolitan St. Louis

A spread of $45.00 per service.

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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Where 65140 pays more and less in Missouri

Ophthalmic surgery

About 65140: Secondary ocular implant attachment

Reports secondary attachment of an ocular implant in an anophthalmic socket, rather than implant placement performed during removal of the eye.

CPT 65140 describes secondary attachment of an ocular implant in a socket after the eye has previously been removed. An ophthalmic surgeon performs the procedure in an operating-room setting to place or secure an implant in the anophthalmic socket. It is distinct from implant placement performed as part of the original enucleation or evisceration, and from later revision, reinsertion, or removal of an existing implant.

Report 65140 when the operative record supports secondary implant attachment and identifies the treated side, the socket, and the work performed. The code has a 90-day global period, including the day-before preoperative visit and related postoperative care during that period. For multiple procedures in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and other procedures are subject to the standard reduction. Modifier 50 identifies bilateral surgery and CMS pays the bilateral procedure at 150%. CMS does not pay an assistant at surgery for this code; co-surgeons and team surgery are not permitted.

CMS billing rules for 65140

Global period
Major surgery with a 90-day global period: the day-before preoperative visit and 90 days of related postoperative care are included.
Multiple procedures
Standard multiple procedure reduction: the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and others at 50% when performed in the same session.
Bilateral procedures
Bilateral procedure with modifier 50 is paid at 150%.
Assistant at surgery
Statutory restriction: assistant at surgery is not paid.
Co-surgeons
Co-surgeons not permitted.
Team surgery
Team surgery not permitted.

Where the value comes from

  • Work RVU9.22 · 37%
  • Practice expense (office) RVU14.74 · 60%
  • Malpractice RVU0.73 · 3%

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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.

65140 compared with similar codes

Office rates for Missouri, from the same CMS release.

65130

Ocular implant insertion

Extraocular muscles attached

No office rate

65130 describes implant insertion; 65140 is for secondary attachment after prior eye removal.

65135

Ocular implant

Extraocular muscles attached

No office rate

65135 describes implant insertion using a different muscle-attachment approach. Use 65140 for secondary attachment, not the initial insertion service.

65103

Eye removal

Implant with muscle attachment

No office rate

65103 includes enucleation with implant placement in the same operation. 65140 describes secondary implant attachment in a previously created socket.

65125

Ocular implant revision

With graft

$408.36–$439.25

65125 is for revising an existing implant. 65140 is for secondary attachment, not revision of an implant already in place.

Compare 65140 by payment locality

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3 of 3 payment localities

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

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65140 billing questions

How is 65140 different from implant placement during eye removal?

65140 is for secondary attachment in a socket after the eye was previously removed. When implant placement is part of the current enucleation or evisceration, use the applicable combined procedure code instead.

What documentation supports 65140?

The operative report should establish that the procedure is secondary, identify the anophthalmic socket and side, and describe the implant attachment performed.

Can 65140 be reported with a revision or removal code?

Choose the code that matches the work on the implant. Revision, reinsertion, and removal describe different services; do not report them as separate procedures for the same work.

How does Medicare handle bilateral reporting?

CMS lists 65140 as a bilateral procedure. Modifier 50 is paid at 150% under the supplied fee schedule rule.

Are assistant or co-surgeon claims payable?

CMS lists a statutory restriction on assistant-at-surgery payment for 65140 and does not permit co-surgeons or team surgery.

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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