# CPT 17000

> Medicare paid $66.77 for CPT 17000 in the office (non-facility) setting and $55.22 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. Across payment localities, the office amount is $59.60–$83.14 and the facility amount is $49.71–$69.15. This is a 0.1% increase from the previous quarter.

## What it is

Precancerous Skin Spot Removal

## Selected release

- Release: Q1 2020 (2020 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2020
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $66.77
- Facility national allowed amount: $55.22
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.61
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 1.18
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.86
- Malpractice RVU: 0.06
- 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 6,026
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/17000/2020/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/17000/2020/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-13T15:22:50+00:00