{
    "code": "17312",
    "coding_system": "CPT",
    "canonical_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/17312/2019/A",
    "release_specific_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/17312/2019/D",
    "description": "Each further round of Mohs micrographic surgery on the head, neck, hands, feet, or genitals after the first one. When the microscope shows tumor still reaching an edge, the surgeon returns to that specific area, removes another thin layer, and processes and reads it the same way. This is counted once per additional stage, however many stages a tumor needs, and it pairs with the first-stage code for the same body regions.",
    "answer": {
        "question": "How much did Medicare pay for CPT 17312 in Q4 2019?",
        "text": "Medicare paid $405.80 for CPT 17312 in the office (non-facility) setting and $207.59 in a facility under the Q4 2019 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2019. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2019, when it increased 1.8%."
    },
    "release": {
        "schedule": "pfs",
        "year": 2019,
        "quarter": "D",
        "label": "Q4 2019",
        "effective": "October 1 – December 31, 2019",
        "revision": 1
    },
    "status": {
        "code": "A",
        "non_facility_payable": true,
        "facility_payable": true
    },
    "national_rates_usd": {
        "office_non_facility": 405.8,
        "facility": 207.59,
        "sequestration_applied": false,
        "gpci": 1
    },
    "rvus": {
        "work": 3.3,
        "practice_expense_non_facility": 7.47,
        "practice_expense_facility": 1.97,
        "malpractice": 0.49
    },
    "formula": "(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor",
    "conversion_factor": 36.0391,
    "source": {
        "label": "Physician relative value file (Q4 2019)",
        "cms_url": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu19d.zip",
        "local_source_url": "https://localishealth.com/sources/physician-fee-schedule/2019/D",
        "file": "PPRRVU19_OCT.csv",
        "row": 5915,
        "sha256": "4efa7bdbffa98a56affa6d5b05e25d7ac5c39f26c7b281d0c773e7e530767cae"
    },
    "modified_at": "2026-08-04T03:09:13+00:00"
}