# CPT 33361

> Medicare paid $1,416.42 for CPT 33361 in the office (non-facility) setting and $1,416.42 in a facility under the Q2 2016 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 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 0.3%.

## What it is

Replacement of a worn-out aortic valve without opening the chest or stopping the heart. A replacement valve is crimped onto a catheter, advanced up the femoral artery in the groin, positioned inside the failing native valve, and expanded so it pushes the old leaflets aside and takes over the job. This entry is specifically the route where the groin artery is entered through a needle puncture rather than a surgical cut-down; companion codes cover the same valve delivered through a surgically exposed artery, through the chest wall, or through vessels in the neck or elsewhere.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2016 (2016 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2016
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $1416.42
- Facility national allowed amount: $1416.42
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 25.13
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 8.62
- Facility practice expense RVU: 8.62
- Malpractice RVU: 5.81
- 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 (Q2 2016)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu16b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU16_April_V0202.csv, row 7,533
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/33361/2016/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/33361/2016/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:06:42+00:00