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Conversion factor

22526

Idet single level

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Code typePrimary

Payment statusNon-covered (N)

Global period10-day

Non-covered: Not covered by Medicare.

Pricing with Related Codes

Line

Qty

Global fee

Pro fee

Primary22526Idet single level

$0.00

Add-on22527Idet 1 or more levels

$0.00/ unit

Whole procedure · 0.00 wRVU credited

$0.00

How these numbers were computed

status=NThis code is not separately payable under the Physician Fee Schedule (status N) — amounts shown are $0.

RVU Breakdown

Component

Office

Facility

Work

5.70

Practice expense

51.76

2.36

Malpractice

0.60

Total RVU

58.06

8.66

Payment Policy & Modifiers

Allowed adjustments

No payment adjustments apply to this code.

Not applicable to this code

Bilateral -50Multiple procedure Assistant surgeon Co-surgeon -62Team surgeon -66Prof / tech split

Global surgery package

Payment covers the procedure plus related care for 10 days after. Of the total payment, 10% is attributed to pre-operative care, 80% to the procedure itself, and 10% to post-operative visits.

In plain English

Office vs. facility

Where the service happens. In your own clinic (office), Medicare also pays you for the room, staff and supplies — so it's higher. In a hospital or ASC, the facility bills that part separately.

wRVU

Work Relative Value Units — the physician-effort share of a code. Most employment contracts pay a set dollar amount per wRVU, independent of Medicare's rate.

Add-on codes

Billed only alongside a primary. 22527 adds each extra unit — the stepper adds them to the whole-procedure total.

Conversion factor

The dollars-per-RVU Medicare multiplies by. Set once, it flows through every figure on this page. The QP rate applies to clinicians who qualify as Advanced APM participants — a small annual boost.

GPCI

Geographic Practice Cost Index — adjusts the work, practice-expense and malpractice RVUs for your locality's cost of living before they're multiplied by the conversion factor.

How payment is computed

Each RVU is scaled by your locality's GPCI, summed, then multiplied by the conversion factor:

(work·wGPCI
+ PE·peGPCI
+ MP·mpGPCI) × CF

This code's Global fee

(5.70·1.000
+ 51.76·1.000
+ 0.60·1.000) × $33.40 = $1,939.26

This line's global fee is $0.00 — the formula above, after:

status=N

Full methodology — how we apply CMS's rules →