# CPT 22842

> Medicare paid $786.67 for CPT 22842 in the office (non-facility) setting and $786.67 in a facility under the Q3 2014 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2014. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment.

## What it is

Rod-and-anchor hardware fixed to the back of the spine with an attachment at each vertebral level in the construct, spanning a short-to-moderate stretch of roughly three to six segments. Gripping every level gives firmer control of alignment than end-only fixation. It goes with a fusion rather than being done alone, and longer constructs covering more segments are reported with different codes in the same family.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2014 (2014 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2014
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $786.67
- Facility national allowed amount: $786.67
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 12.56
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 6.11
- Facility practice expense RVU: 6.11
- Malpractice RVU: 3.29
- Conversion factor: 35.8228
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q3 2014)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu14c.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU14_V0515.csv, row 5,519
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/22842/2014/B
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/22842/2014/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:05:22+00:00