On this page

CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01

37274 Atherectomy Medicare reimbursement rates in Utah

Reports complex endovascular atherectomy in each additional femoral or popliteal artery vessel treated after the primary revascularization procedure. Compare 37274 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Utah.

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 37274 in Utah?

Utah has 1 payment locality in this comparison. Use the service location to choose the applicable amount. These are the supported base rates for the payment area shown below, using the same CMS release.

Office / nonfacility

$2346.79

1 of 1 localities have a supported rate.

Payment area: Utah

One mapped payment locality.

Facility setting

$244.15

1 of 1 localities have a supported rate.

Payment area: Utah

One mapped payment locality.

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.

Find 37274 in your payment locality →

Endovascular revascularization

About 37274: Complex femoral-popliteal atherectomy, additional vessel

Reports complex endovascular atherectomy in each additional femoral or popliteal artery vessel treated after the primary revascularization procedure.

This add-on code covers catheter-based atherectomy to remove obstructive plaque in an additional femoral or popliteal artery vessel during endovascular revascularization. Vascular surgeons, interventional radiologists, and interventional cardiologists may perform the procedure in a hospital catheterization lab or an outpatient angiography suite. Angioplasty in the treated vessel is included when performed; this code describes atherectomy without the stent-and-atherectomy combination represented by other codes in the family.

Report it for each qualifying additional vessel after the primary procedure, selecting the complex-lesion pathway based on the documented lesion and the applicable CPT criteria. The procedure note should identify the treated vessels, describe the lesion characteristics supporting complex classification, and document atherectomy in each additional vessel. CMS classifies this as an add-on code: it must be billed with a primary procedure and is paid within that procedure’s global period. For bilateral procedures reported with modifier 50, CMS pays at 150%.

CMS billing rules for 37274

Global period
Add-on code: billed only together with a primary procedure and paid within that procedure's global period.
Bilateral procedures
Bilateral procedure with modifier 50 is paid at 150%.

Where the value comes from

  • Work RVU5.50 · 7%
  • Practice expense (office) RVU67.72 · 91%
  • Malpractice RVU1.23 · 2%

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.

37274 compared with similar codes

Office rates for Utah, from the same CMS release.

37273

Peripheral atherectomy

Complex, initial vessel

$12,456.09

37273 reports the first vessel treated with complex atherectomy; 37274 reports each qualifying additional vessel.

37272

Vessel atherectomy

Each additional simple artery

$2,203.61

Both describe atherectomy in an additional vessel, but 37272 is for the straightforward-lesion pathway and 37274 for the complex-lesion pathway.

37278

Stent and atherectomy

Complex, each additional artery

$3,651.85

Use 37278 for complex treatment of an additional vessel when atherectomy is combined with stent placement; 37274 describes atherectomy without that combination.

Compare 37274 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.

1 of 1 payment localities

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

    Office / nonfacility

    $2346.79

    Facility

    $244.15

Need rates for a whole code list?

Fee-sheet and API access are in early access. Tell us which codes and locations your team needs.

Explore fee-sheet early access →

How this local rate is calculated

Each RVU component is multiplied by its own geographic practice cost index (GPCI). The three adjusted components are added, then multiplied by the conversion factor. These are the inputs used for 37274 in Utah.

PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv

4,634

Code
37274
Physician work
5.50
Practice expense
67.72
Malpractice
1.23

GPCI2026.csv

104

Locality
Utah
Physician work
1.000
Practice expense
0.940
Malpractice
0.898
Office / nonfacility calculation for 37274 in Utah
ComponentRVULocality factorAdjusted
Physician work5.50× 1.0005.5000
Practice expense67.72× 0.94063.6568
Malpractice1.23× 0.8981.1045
Total RVUs70.2613
Conversion factor× 33.4009

Office / nonfacility rate, Utah$2346.79

Values as parsed from CMS release RVU26D, effective 2026-10-01. The amount is rounded to the nearest cent only at the end.
Explore RVUs, geographic factors and the full formula

Office / nonfacility

Office / nonfacility calculation inputs
ComponentRVULocal GPCI
Work5.51
Practice expense67.720.94
Malpractice1.230.898

(5.5 × 1 + 67.72 × 0.94 + 1.23 × 0.898) × $33.4009 = $2346.79

Facility

Facility calculation inputs
ComponentRVULocal GPCI
Work5.51
Practice expense0.750.94
Malpractice1.230.898

(5.5 × 1 + 0.75 × 0.94 + 1.23 × 0.898) × $33.4009 = $244.15

The office and facility calculations use their respective practice-expense RVUs. The facility amount here is the physician fee, not a separate hospital or facility bill.

37274 billing questions

When should this code be used instead of 37273?

Use 37273 for the first vessel treated under the complex atherectomy pathway. Use 37274 for each qualifying additional vessel.

Can this code be billed by itself?

No. It is an add-on code and must be reported with a primary procedure for the initial treated vessel.

Is angioplasty separately reported in the same vessel?

Angioplasty performed in the vessel treated with atherectomy is included in this service. The procedure record should distinguish treatment in each vessel.

What documentation supports the complex pathway?

Document the target vessels, the lesion characteristics supporting the complex classification, and the atherectomy performed in each additional vessel.

How is bilateral treatment handled?

For a bilateral procedure reported with modifier 50, CMS applies its 150% payment rule. The code remains an add-on to the primary procedure.

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.

RVUs for 37274PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv, line 4,634 (RVU26D)
Geographic factors for UtahGPCI2026.csv, line 104 (RVU26D)