# CPT 15271

> Medicare paid $158.76 for CPT 15271 in the office (non-facility) setting and $85.49 in a facility under the Q2 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2021. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2021, when it increased 2.5%.

## What it is

Application of a manufactured or biologic skin substitute, a sheet of engineered or processed tissue, to an open wound on the trunk, an arm, or a leg. The dressing is trimmed to fit, secured over the prepared wound bed, and left to encourage the wound to close. This code covers the first block of wound surface treated on a relatively small total wound, with separate codes for additional area and for much larger wounds, and a different set of codes for the face, scalp, hands, and feet.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2021 (2021 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2021
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $158.76
- Facility national allowed amount: $85.49
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.50
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 2.83
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.73
- Malpractice RVU: 0.22
- Conversion factor: 34.8931
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2021)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu21b-updated-03022021.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU21_APR.csv, row 5,974
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/15271/2021/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/15271/2021/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:10:33+00:00