No office rate
63081 reports the primary cervical vertebral body decompression segment. Use 63082 only for an additional cervical segment and only with the primary procedure.
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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01
63082 Vertebral decompression Medicare reimbursement rates in Virginia
Reports removal of an additional cervical vertebral body segment for anterior spinal cord or nerve root decompression, beyond the first segment. Compare 63082 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Virginia.
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 63082 in Virginia?
Virginia 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
$222.63–$259.05
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.
Spine surgery
About 63082: Additional cervical vertebral body decompression
Reports removal of an additional cervical vertebral body segment for anterior spinal cord or nerve root decompression, beyond the first segment.
A spine surgeon performs this additional-segment service through an anterior cervical approach, removing vertebral body tissue to relieve pressure on the spinal cord or nerve roots. It may be part of surgery for cervical myelopathy caused by degenerative narrowing or other pathology requiring vertebral body removal, and is typically performed in an operating room. The code represents an additional cervical segment, not the first segment treated.
Report it with the primary cervical vertebral body decompression code, 63081, when the operative report supports removal and neural decompression at an additional segment. Documentation should identify the cervical levels treated, the anterior approach, and the decompression performed at each additional segment. CMS classifies this as an add-on code: it is billed only with a primary procedure and paid within that procedure’s global period.
CMS billing rules for 63082
- 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 RVU4.25 · 60%
- Practice expense (office) RVU1.43 · 20%
- Malpractice RVU1.43 · 20%
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Medicare services in 2024 · #2090 by national volume
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.
63082 compared with similar codes
Office rates for Virginia, from the same CMS release.
No office rate
63086 is the additional-segment counterpart for thoracic vertebral body decompression; 63082 is for cervical segments.
No office rate
63075 describes anterior cervical decompression involving disc removal at an interspace. 63082 describes an additional vertebral body segment removed for decompression.
Compare 63082 by payment locality
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2 of 2 payment localities
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Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$259.05
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Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$222.63
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63082 billing questions
When is 63082 reported instead of 63081?
63081 represents the first cervical segment treated by anterior vertebral body decompression. Report 63082 for each additional cervical segment documented in the same operative service.
Can 63082 be billed by itself?
No. It is an add-on code and must be reported with the primary cervical procedure, 63081.
How should the additional segment be documented?
The operative report should identify the additional cervical level and describe vertebral body removal performed there to decompress the spinal cord or nerve roots.
How does 63082 differ from a cervical discectomy code?
63082 represents an additional cervical vertebral body segment removed for decompression. A cervical discectomy code describes decompression through disc removal at an interspace rather than an additional corpectomy segment.
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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7,02063078,,Spine disk surgery thorax,A,,3.20,1.12,NA,1.12,,1.33,5.65,5.65,0,ZZZ,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,2,2,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
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7,02263082,,Remove vertebral body add-on,A,,4.25,1.43,NA,1.43,,1.43,7.11,7.11,0,ZZZ,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,2,1,2,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
7,02363085,,Remove vert body dcmprn thrc,A,,28.73,16.13,NA,16.13,,9.63,54.49,54.49,0,090,0.11,0.76,0.13,2,0,2,2,2,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
7,02463086,,Remove vertebral body add-on,A,,3.11,0.98,NA,0.98,,1.03,5.12,5.12,0,ZZZ,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,2,2,2,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
7,02563087,,Remov vertbr dcmprn thrclmbr,A,,36.59,19.06,NA,19.06,,12.14,67.79,67.79,0,090,0.11,0.76,0.13,2,0,2,2,2,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00