# CPT 36470

> Medicare paid $152.67 for CPT 36470 in the office (non-facility) setting and $86.88 in a facility under the Q1 2015 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2015. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. Across payment localities, the office amount is $116.14–$192.77 and the facility amount is $69.76–$108.67. This is a 1.1% decrease from the previous quarter.

## Selected release

- Release: Q1 2015 (2015 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2015
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $152.67
- Facility national allowed amount: $86.88
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.10
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 2.96
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.12
- Malpractice RVU: 0.21
- Conversion factor: 35.7547
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q1 2015)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu15a.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU15_V1223c.csv, row 7,890
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/36470/2015/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/36470/2015/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:05:39+00:00