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    "release_specific_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/00400/2019/C",
    "description": "Anesthesia care for operations on skin and the tissue just beneath it on the arms, legs, front of the trunk, or perineum, when no more specific anesthesia code applies. Think surface-level work rather than surgery entering the chest, abdomen or a joint. Typical accompanying procedures are wide excision of a skin cancer, skin grafting for a burn or wound, or debridement of an infected wound.",
    "answer": {
        "question": "How much does Medicare pay for CPT 00400?",
        "text": "CPT 00400 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 $199.22 for a 90-minute case in Dallas, TX under the Q3 2019 release, before sequestration."
    },
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    },
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        "facility_payable": false
    },
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        "facility": null,
        "sequestration_applied": false,
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    },
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        "practice_expense_non_facility": null,
        "practice_expense_facility": null,
        "malpractice": null
    },
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    "conversion_factor": 36.0391,
    "source": {
        "label": "Physician relative value file (Q3 2019)",
        "cms_url": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu19c.zip",
        "local_source_url": "https://localishealth.com/sources/physician-fee-schedule/2019/C",
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}