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    "release_specific_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/00148/2017/A",
    "description": "Anesthesia care for a detailed eye examination performed under anesthesia rather than in clinic, most often in a young child or a patient unable to cooperate with an awake exam. It covers a diagnostic look at the eye - checking pressure, the retina, or other structures - not an operation, similar in purpose to the anesthesia code for an under-anesthesia ear exam.",
    "answer": {
        "question": "How much does Medicare pay for CPT 00148?",
        "text": "CPT 00148 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 $175.96 for a 60-minute case in Dallas, TX under the Q1 2017 release, before sequestration."
    },
    "release": {
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        "year": 2017,
        "quarter": "A",
        "label": "Q1 2017",
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        "revision": 1
    },
    "status": {
        "code": "J",
        "non_facility_payable": false,
        "facility_payable": false
    },
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        "facility": null,
        "sequestration_applied": false,
        "gpci": 1
    },
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        "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": 35.8887,
    "source": {
        "label": "Physician relative value file (Q1 2017)",
        "cms_url": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu17a.zip",
        "local_source_url": "https://localishealth.com/sources/physician-fee-schedule/2017/A",
        "file": "PPRRVU17_V1219.csv",
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    },
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}