# CPT 17003

> Medicare paid $6.92 for CPT 17003 in the office (non-facility) setting and $2.08 in a facility under the Q2 2022 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2022. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2022, when it increased 4.4%.

## What it is

Freezing, burning, or otherwise destroying precancerous skin spots, most often actinic keratoses caused by years of sun exposure, counting each lesion treated after the first one at a visit. The first lesion is reported with its own code, and this one is counted once per lesion for the ones that follow, up to a point where a different high-volume code takes over. Destruction means the lesion is killed in place rather than cut out and sent to a laboratory.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2022 (2022 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2022
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $6.92
- Facility national allowed amount: $2.08
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.04
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.16
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.02
- Malpractice RVU: 0.00
- Conversion factor: 34.6062
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2022)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu22b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU22_APR.csv, row 6,321
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/17003/2022/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/17003/2022/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:11:36+00:00