# CPT 15260

> Medicare paid $1,028.55 for CPT 15260 in the office (non-facility) setting and $872.65 in a facility under the Q1 2020 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2020. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This is a 1.2% decrease from the previous quarter.

## 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: Q1 2020 (2020 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2020
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $1028.55
- Facility national allowed amount: $872.65
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 11.64
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 15.61
- Facility practice expense RVU: 11.29
- Malpractice RVU: 1.25
- Conversion factor: 36.0896
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q1 2020)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu20a-updated-01312020.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU20_Jan.csv, row 5,918
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/15260/2020/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/15260/2020/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:09:22+00:00