# CPT 00176

> CPT 00176 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 $248.47 for a 60-minute case in Dallas, TX under the Q4 2014 release, before sequestration.

## What it is

Anesthesia care for extensive, more invasive intraoral surgery - larger operations inside the mouth and throat than routine biopsy or lesion removal, such as major tumor resection. It sits above the general intraoral anesthesia code specifically because of that added scope, often meaning a longer case and closer attention to a shared airway.

## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2014 (2014 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2014
- 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: 35.8228
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2014)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu14d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU14_V0815_v5.csv, row 4,126
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/00176/2014/D
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/00176/2014/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:05:30+00:00