# CPT 20550

> Medicare paid $54.42 for CPT 20550 in the office (non-facility) setting and $40.72 in a facility under the Q2 2019 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 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 0.1%.

## What it is

Injection of a medication, such as a corticosteroid, into a single tendon sheath, ligament, or the plantar fascia. It is commonly used for conditions like tennis elbow, trigger finger, or plantar fasciitis.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2019 (2019 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2019
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $54.42
- Facility national allowed amount: $40.72
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.75
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.67
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.29
- Malpractice RVU: 0.09
- Conversion factor: 36.0391
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2019)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu19b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU19_APR.csv, row 5,956
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/20550/2019/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/20550/2019/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:53+00:00