# CPT 15260

> Medicare paid $1,031.16 for CPT 15260 in the office (non-facility) setting and $884.72 in a facility under the Q2 2016 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2016. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2016, when it increased 0.1%.

## What it is

A skin graft that takes all layers of skin, epidermis and dermis together, from a donor site and transplants it to a defect on the nose, ear, eyelid, or lip; the donor site is then stitched closed. Full-thickness grafts are chosen for these areas because they contract less and match the surrounding skin better than thinner split-thickness grafts. This code covers a smaller graft area, with a companion code for each further block of area on a larger reconstruction. Grafts to the face more broadly, or to the trunk and limbs, fall under different codes.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2016 (2016 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2016
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $1031.16
- Facility national allowed amount: $884.72
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 11.64
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 15.45
- Facility practice expense RVU: 11.36
- Malpractice RVU: 1.71
- Conversion factor: 35.8043
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2016)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu16b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU16_April_V0202.csv, row 5,175
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/15260/2016/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/15260/2016/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:06:42+00:00