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    "canonical_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/00162/2020/B",
    "release_specific_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/00162/2020/B",
    "description": "Anesthesia care for extensive, more invasive surgery on the nose and sinuses - larger operations than routine sinus or septal work, such as removal of a sinus tumor or major reconstructive nasal surgery. It sits above the general nose-and-sinus anesthesia code specifically because of that added scope and complexity, often meaning a longer case with more blood-loss and airway considerations.",
    "answer": {
        "question": "How much does Medicare pay for CPT 00162?",
        "text": "CPT 00162 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 $241.86 for a 60-minute case in Dallas, TX under the Q2 2020 release, before sequestration."
    },
    "release": {
        "schedule": "pfs",
        "year": 2020,
        "quarter": "B",
        "label": "Q2 2020",
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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
    },
    "rvus": {
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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": 36.0896,
    "source": {
        "label": "Physician relative value file (Q2 2020)",
        "cms_url": "https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu20b-updated-05012020.zip",
        "local_source_url": "https://localishealth.com/sources/physician-fee-schedule/2020/B",
        "file": "PPRRVU20_APR.csv",
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    },
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}