# CPT 36561

> Medicare paid $1,103.16 for CPT 36561 in the office (non-facility) setting and $351.02 in a facility under the Q3 2019 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2019. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2019, when it decreased 0.6%.

## What it is

Placement of an implanted port: a small reservoir with a tough silicone top is buried in a pocket under the skin, usually on the upper chest, and joined to a catheter that is tunneled beneath the skin and threaded into a large central vein near the heart. Nurses use it by pushing a special needle through the skin into the reservoir, so nothing dangles outside the body between treatments and the patient can shower and swim normally. This entry covers the port and its catheter placed together as one device, in patients aged five and older.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2019 (2019 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2019
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $1103.16
- Facility national allowed amount: $351.02
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 5.79
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 23.88
- Facility practice expense RVU: 3.01
- Malpractice RVU: 0.94
- Conversion factor: 36.0391
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q3 2019)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu19c.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU19_JUL.csv, row 8,694
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/36561/2019/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/36561/2019/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:09:02+00:00