# CPT 37227

> Medicare paid $15,061.51 for CPT 37227 in the office (non-facility) setting and $765.35 in a facility under the Q2 2018 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2018. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2018, when it increased 0.5%.

## What it is

Reopening a diseased artery in the thigh or behind the knee where both plaque removal and a stent are used. Plaque is shaved or sanded away with an atherectomy catheter, and a stent is then placed to hold the channel open; any balloon dilation in the same artery is included in this entry rather than described separately. This is the most complete of the femoral and popliteal revascularization group, which otherwise covers balloon work alone, a stent alone, or atherectomy alone, and one code covers that whole territory in a leg however many segments are treated.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2018 (2018 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2018
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $15061.51
- Facility national allowed amount: $765.35
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 14.25
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 401.10
- Facility practice expense RVU: 3.98
- Malpractice RVU: 3.03
- Conversion factor: 35.9996
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2018)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu18b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU18_APR.csv, row 8,520
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/37227/2018/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/37227/2018/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:19+00:00