# CPT 36475

> Medicare paid $1,561.05 for CPT 36475 in the office (non-facility) setting and $293.90 in a facility under the Q2 2015 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2015. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2015, when it decreased 8.1%.

## What it is

Closure of a leaking superficial leg vein from the inside using heat. A catheter is slid into the vein through a small puncture, numbing fluid is placed around the vein to protect nearby tissue, and radiofrequency energy heats the vein wall so it shrinks and seals; blood then reroutes through healthy deep veins. What sets this entry apart from its neighbours is the energy source, radiofrequency rather than laser or a chemical agent. It describes the first vein treated in a leg during the session, with a companion code for each further vein.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2015 (2015 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2015
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $1561.05
- Facility national allowed amount: $293.90
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 5.30
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 37.25
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.81
- Malpractice RVU: 1.11
- 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 (Q2 2015)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu15b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU15_V0213_Current.csv, row 7,894
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/36475/2015/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/36475/2015/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:05:48+00:00