# CPT 20611

> Medicare paid $101.32 for CPT 20611 in the office (non-facility) setting and $60.32 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. Across payment localities, the office amount is $89.83–$126.39 and the facility amount is $54.60–$78.40. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2023, when it decreased 0.8%.

## What it is

Ultrasound-Guided Major Joint Injection or Aspiration

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2023 (2023 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2023
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $101.32
- Facility national allowed amount: $60.32
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.10
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 1.72
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.51
- Malpractice RVU: 0.17
- 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 6,947
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/20611/2023/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/20611/2023/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-13T15:11:57+00:00