# CPT 17262

> Medicare paid $182.49 for CPT 17262 in the office (non-facility) setting and $110.96 in a facility under the Q4 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 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 0.9%.

## 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: Q4 2021 (2021 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2021
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $182.49
- Facility national allowed amount: $110.96
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.63
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 3.45
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.40
- Malpractice RVU: 0.15
- 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 (Q4 2021)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu21d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU21_OCT.csv, row 6,179
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/17262/2021/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/17262/2021/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:10:59+00:00