# CPT 00124

> CPT 00124 is an anesthesia code, so Medicare has no single national rate: payment is (base units + time units) × the locality's anesthesia conversion factor — for example, about $166.74 for a 60-minute case in Dallas, TX under the Q4 2024 release, before sequestration.

## What it is

Anesthesia care for a close examination of the ear canal and eardrum done under anesthesia rather than in the office, most often because the patient - typically a young child - cannot hold still for the exam awake. It is a brief anesthetic for a diagnostic look, not an operation, which is what separates it from the ear-surgery and ear-tube anesthesia codes nearby.

## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2024 (2024 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2024
- Status indicator: J
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: not published
- Facility national allowed amount: not published
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: not published
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: not published
- Facility practice expense RVU: not published
- Malpractice RVU: not published
- Conversion factor: 33.2875
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2024)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu24d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU24_OCT.csv, row 5,928
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/00124/2024/D
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/00124/2024/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:14:25+00:00