# CPT 11602

> Medicare paid $253.02 for CPT 11602 in the office (non-facility) setting and $169.04 in a facility under the Q4 2017 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2017. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2017, when it increased 0.7%.

## What it is

Full-thickness surgical removal of a cancerous skin lesion from the trunk, an arm, or a leg, taking a margin of normal-looking skin around it. The family is graded by how wide the lesion is, and this member sits in the middle of the range, above the smallest lesions but below the larger ones. Body region matters too: separate code ranges cover the face, ears, eyelids, lips, scalp, neck, hands, feet, and genitals.

## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2017 (2017 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2017
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $253.02
- Facility national allowed amount: $169.04
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 2.27
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 4.44
- Facility practice expense RVU: 2.10
- Malpractice RVU: 0.34
- 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 (Q4 2017)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu17d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU17_OCT.csv, row 5,196
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/11602/2017/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/11602/2017/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:07:59+00:00