# CPT 01926

> CPT 01926 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 $263.93 for a 60-minute case in Dallas, TX under the Q1 2017 release, before sequestration.

## What it is

Anesthesia care during a catheter-based treatment threaded through the arteries to fix a problem in the brain, the heart, or the aorta. This is the higher-acuity member of the interventional-radiology anesthesia group: sibling codes cover arterial work elsewhere in the body, while this one is for the intracranial, intracardiac, and aortic territory where the stakes and monitoring demands are greatest. Typical cases include removing a clot during a stroke, coiling or stenting a brain aneurysm, and structural heart or aortic repairs done through a catheter.

## Selected release

- Release: Q1 2017 (2017 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2017
- 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: 35.8887
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q1 2017)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu17a.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU17_V1219.csv, row 4,766
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/01926/2017/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/01926/2017/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:07:28+00:00