# CPT 17262

> Medicare paid $180.81 for CPT 17262 in the office (non-facility) setting and $115.13 in a facility under the Q3 2020 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2020. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2020, when it increased 0.1%.

## What it is

Destroying a cancerous skin lesion on the trunk, an arm, or a leg without cutting it out, using methods such as electrosurgery, curettage, freezing, chemical treatment, or laser. The set is graded by lesion width and this is a mid-range member, larger than the smallest lesions but below the bigger ones. Separate ranges cover the scalp, neck, hands, feet, and genitals, and the face, ears, eyelids, nose, and lips.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2020 (2020 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2020
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $180.81
- Facility national allowed amount: $115.13
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.63
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 3.23
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.41
- Malpractice RVU: 0.15
- 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 (Q3 2020)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu20c-updated-06192020.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU20_V0618.csv, row 6,118
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/17262/2020/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/17262/2020/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:09:46+00:00