# CPT 12046

> Medicare paid $498.78 for CPT 12046 in the office (non-facility) setting and $324.71 in a facility under the Q3 2019 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2019. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. Across payment localities, the office amount is $435.35–$611.00 and the facility amount is $283.91–$406.73. This is a 0.3% increase from the previous quarter.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2019 (2019 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2019
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $498.78
- Facility national allowed amount: $324.71
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 4.30
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 8.50
- Facility practice expense RVU: 3.67
- Malpractice RVU: 1.04
- Conversion factor: 36.0391
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q3 2019)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu19c.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU19_JUL.csv, row 5,660
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/12046/2019/C
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/12046/2019/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:09:02+00:00