# CPT 20611

> Medicare paid $93.09 for CPT 20611 in the office (non-facility) setting and $63.37 in a facility under the Q3 2016 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2016. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2016, when it decreased 1.1%.

## What it is

Injection of medication into, or drainage of fluid from, a large joint such as the knee, shoulder, or hip, with an ultrasound probe used to watch the needle reach its target. The ultrasound is not incidental: a permanent image is captured and a report of the guidance is written. This is the guided sibling of the same procedure done by feel and surface landmarks alone.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2016 (2016 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2016
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $93.09
- Facility national allowed amount: $63.37
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.10
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 1.34
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.51
- Malpractice RVU: 0.16
- Conversion factor: 35.8043
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q3 2016)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu16c.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU16_V0517.csv, row 5,444
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/20611/2016/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/20611/2016/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:06:56+00:00