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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01

43752 Gastric tube placement Medicare reimbursement rates in Wyoming

Reports placement of a tube through the nose or mouth into the stomach, with aspiration, for purposes such as decompression, lavage, or feeding. Compare 43752 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Wyoming.

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 43752 in Wyoming?

Wyoming 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

No supported rate

Facility setting

$33.62

1 of 1 localities have a supported rate.

Payment area: Wyoming**

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.

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Gastrointestinal procedure

About 43752: Nasogastric or orogastric tube placement

Reports placement of a tube through the nose or mouth into the stomach, with aspiration, for purposes such as decompression, lavage, or feeding.

A clinician passes a tube through the nose or mouth into the stomach and may aspirate gastric contents. Common situations include relieving gastric distention by decompression, performing lavage, or establishing temporary access for feeding. The service is most often performed in a hospital or emergency department, though it can occur in an office setting. The key distinction is placement of a nasal or oral gastric tube, rather than sampling through a tube for a specified diagnostic test or repositioning an existing gastrostomy tube.

Report the service when the tube is placed and the documented purpose and route support gastric intubation. The 0-day global period includes same-day preoperative and postoperative care. Modifier 50 is inappropriate for this service. Medicare does not pay an assistant at surgery, and co-surgeons and team surgery are not permitted. Documentation should identify the route, placement, clinical purpose, and any aspiration performed.

CMS billing rules for 43752

Global period
Minor procedure with a 0-day global period: same-day preoperative and postoperative care is included.
Bilateral procedures
Bilateral adjustment does not apply; the descriptor or anatomy makes modifier 50 inappropriate.
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 RVU0.79 · 77%
  • Practice expense (office) RVU0.15 · 15%
  • Malpractice RVU0.09 · 9%

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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.

43752 compared with similar codes

Office rates for Wyoming, from the same CMS release.

43753

Gastric aspiration

Therapeutic decompression

No office rate

43752 covers nasal or oral gastric tube placement for purposes such as decompression or feeding. Choose 43753 for therapeutic gastric intubation and aspiration requiring fluoroscopic guidance.

43754

Gastric aspiration

Single specimen

$338.40

43754 is for diagnostic gastric aspiration with a single specimen. Use 43752 when the service is gastric tube placement rather than a single-specimen diagnostic intubation.

43755

Gastric aspiration

Multiple diagnostic specimens

$223.67

43755 is for diagnostic gastric aspiration involving multiple specimens. It is distinct from placement for decompression, lavage, or feeding reported with 43752.

43761

G-tube repositioning

Existing tube under fluoroscopy

$120.48

43761 repositions an existing gastrostomy tube. Code 43752 concerns placement of a tube through the nose or mouth into the stomach.

Compare 43752 by payment locality

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1 of 1 payment localities

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

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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 43752 in Wyoming**.

PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv

5,283

Code
43752
Physician work
0.79
Practice expense
0.15
Malpractice
0.09

GPCI2026.csv

112

Locality
Wyoming**
Physician work
1.000
Practice expense
1.000
Malpractice
0.740
Facility calculation for 43752 in Wyoming**
ComponentRVULocality factorAdjusted
Physician work0.79× 1.0000.7900
Practice expense0.15× 1.0000.1500
Malpractice0.09× 0.7400.0666
Total RVUs1.0066
Conversion factor× 33.4009

Facility rate, Wyoming**$33.62

Explore RVUs, geographic factors and the full formula

Facility

Facility calculation inputs
ComponentRVULocal GPCI
Work0.791
Practice expense0.151
Malpractice0.090.74

(0.79 × 1 + 0.15 × 1 + 0.09 × 0.74) × $33.4009 = $33.62

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.

43752 billing questions

When should this code be used instead of 43753?

Use 43752 for nasal or oral gastric tube placement for purposes such as decompression, lavage, or feeding. Code 43753 describes therapeutic gastric intubation and aspiration requiring fluoroscopic guidance.

Is tube insertion separately billable?

No. Insertion of the nasal or oral tube is part of this service; do not report a separate charge for that insertion.

What should the procedure note include?

Document the nasal or oral route, that the tube was placed into the stomach, the clinical purpose, and whether gastric contents were aspirated.

Can modifier 50 be used?

No. Bilateral adjustment is inappropriate for this service.

Can an assistant or co-surgeon be reported?

Medicare does not pay an assistant at surgery for this service. Co-surgeons and team surgery are not permitted.

What does the 0-day global period include?

Same-day preoperative and postoperative care is included in the procedure's 0-day global period.

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 43752PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv, line 5,283 (RVU26D)
Geographic factors for Wyoming**GPCI2026.csv, line 112 (RVU26D)