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    "code": "00142",
    "coding_system": "CPT",
    "canonical_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/00142/2015/D",
    "release_specific_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/00142/2015/D",
    "description": "Anesthesia care provided while a surgeon operates on the lens of the eye, most often cataract removal with an artificial lens implant. In practice this is usually monitored anesthesia care: sedation through an IV plus numbing drops or an injection around the eye, with the patient awake but comfortable and still rather than fully asleep. It is reported by the anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist, separately from the surgeon's own code for the eye operation. It differs from the general eye-surgery anesthesia code in that the operation here is specifically on the lens.",
    "answer": {
        "question": "How much does Medicare pay for CPT 00142?",
        "text": "CPT 00142 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 $180.16 for a 60-minute case in Dallas, TX under the Q4 2015 release, before sequestration."
    },
    "release": {
        "schedule": "pfs",
        "year": 2015,
        "quarter": "D",
        "label": "Q4 2015",
        "effective": "October 1 – December 31, 2015",
        "revision": 1
    },
    "status": {
        "code": "J",
        "non_facility_payable": false,
        "facility_payable": false
    },
    "national_rates_usd": {
        "office_non_facility": null,
        "facility": null,
        "sequestration_applied": false,
        "gpci": 1
    },
    "rvus": {
        "work": null,
        "practice_expense_non_facility": null,
        "practice_expense_facility": null,
        "malpractice": null
    },
    "formula": "(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor",
    "conversion_factor": 35.9335,
    "source": {
        "label": "Physician relative value file (Q4 2015)",
        "cms_url": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu15d.zip",
        "local_source_url": "https://localishealth.com/sources/physician-fee-schedule/2015/D",
        "file": "PPRRVU15_OCT05_V1001.csv",
        "row": 4177,
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    },
    "modified_at": "2026-08-04T03:06:14+00:00"
}