# CPT 17314

> Medicare paid $380.06 for CPT 17314 in the office (non-facility) setting and $193.80 in a facility under the Q4 2017 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2017. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2017, when it increased 0.6%.

## What it is

Mohs surgery removes a skin cancer in rounds: the surgeon takes a thin layer of tissue, maps it, and examines it under the microscope while the patient waits, then goes back only where tumor still reaches the edge of the specimen. This code covers a repeat round of that cut-and-check cycle on the trunk, an arm, or a leg, after the opening round has already been accounted for. Two things separate it from its neighbors in the family: the body region (trunk and limbs rather than the face, scalp, hands, feet, or genital area) and the fact that it is a follow-up round rather than the first. Each round covers up to a set number of tissue blocks, with further blocks beyond that handled by a different code.

## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2017 (2017 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2017
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $380.06
- Facility national allowed amount: $193.80
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 3.06
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 7.07
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.88
- Malpractice RVU: 0.46
- Conversion factor: 35.8887
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2017)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu17d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU17_OCT.csv, row 5,487
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/17314/2017/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/17314/2017/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:07:59+00:00