No office rate
Choose 50328 for arterial preparation of a living-donor graft; 50327 describes the corresponding arterial work for a cadaver-donor graft.
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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01
50328 Kidney graft prep Medicare reimbursement rates in New Jersey
Reports backbench preparation of a living-donor kidney graft’s artery before transplantation, including work to prepare or reconstruct arterial inflow. Compare 50328 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in New Jersey.
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 50328 in New Jersey?
New Jersey 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
$179.87–$183.52
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.
Transplant surgery
About 50328: Living donor renal graft arterial preparation
Reports backbench preparation of a living-donor kidney graft’s artery before transplantation, including work to prepare or reconstruct arterial inflow.
A transplant surgeon performs this backbench service on a kidney obtained from a living donor, after procurement and before the graft is implanted in the recipient. The work focuses on preparing the graft’s artery for the vascular connection needed at transplantation, with or without arterial reconstruction. It is distinct from removing the donor kidney and from implanting the kidney in the recipient.
Report the code when the operative record supports arterial preparation of a living-donor renal graft. Documentation should identify the living-donor graft and describe the arterial work performed, including any reconstruction. When other procedures are performed in the same session, CMS applies the standard multiple procedure reduction: the highest-valued procedure is paid in full, and the others are paid at 50%.
CMS billing rules for 50328
- Multiple procedures
- Standard multiple procedure reduction: the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and others at 50% when performed in the same session.
Where the value comes from
- Work RVU3.41 · 67%
- Practice expense (office) RVU0.82 · 16%
- Malpractice RVU0.86 · 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.
50328 compared with similar codes
Office rates for New Jersey, from the same CMS release.
50325
No office ratePrep donor renal graft
Both concern living-donor graft backbench preparation, but 50325 addresses venous preparation rather than arterial preparation.
No office rate
50360 describes implantation of a kidney in the recipient without recipient nephrectomy; 50328 describes backbench arterial preparation of the living-donor graft.
Compare 50328 by payment locality
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2 of 2 payment localities
Northern Nj →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$183.52
Rest Of New Jersey →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$179.87
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50328 billing questions
How does this differ from 50327?
Both codes describe backbench arterial preparation, but 50328 is for a living-donor renal graft and 50327 is for a cadaver-donor graft.
Is this the donor nephrectomy or the recipient transplant?
No. This code covers preparation of the living-donor graft’s artery before implantation; it does not describe removing the kidney from the donor or implanting it in the recipient.
What operative documentation supports reporting it?
The record should establish that the graft came from a living donor and describe the arterial preparation or reconstruction performed on the backbench.
How is it paid when other procedures occur in the same session?
CMS pays the highest-valued procedure in full and pays the other procedures at 50% under the standard multiple procedure reduction.
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.
5,89650323,,Prep cadaver renal allograft,C,,0.00,0.00,,0.00,,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,89750325,,Prep donor renal graft,C,,0.00,0.00,,0.00,,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,89850327,,Prep renal graft/venous,A,,3.90,0.93,NA,0.93,,1.00,5.83,5.83,0,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,89950328,,Prep renal graft/arterial,A,,3.41,0.82,NA,0.82,,0.86,5.09,5.09,0,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,90050329,,Prep renal graft/ureteral,A,,3.26,0.78,NA,0.78,,0.83,4.87,4.87,0,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,0,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,90150340,,Recipient nephrectomy,A,,13.69,10.74,NA,10.74,,3.65,28.08,28.08,0,090,0.08,0.83,0.09,2,1,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,90250360,,Rnl altrnsplj w/o rcp nfrct,A,,38.88,19.75,NA,19.75,,10.03,68.66,68.66,0,090,0.08,0.83,0.09,2,0,2,2,2,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00