# CPT 17311

> Medicare paid $688.59 for CPT 17311 in the office (non-facility) setting and $356.15 in a facility under the Q3 2023 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2023. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2023, when it increased 0.1%.

## What it is

Mohs Skin Cancer Surgery, First Stage

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2023 (2023 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2023
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $688.59
- Facility national allowed amount: $356.15
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 6.20
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 13.47
- Facility practice expense RVU: 3.66
- Malpractice RVU: 0.65
- Conversion factor: 33.8872
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q3 2023)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu23c.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU23_JUL.csv, row 6,821
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/17311/2023/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/17311/2023/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-13T15:22:50+00:00