# CPT 37242

> Medicare paid $7,829.33 for CPT 37242 in the office (non-facility) setting and $517.01 in a facility under the Q1 2016 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2016. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This is a 1.1% decrease from the previous quarter.

## What it is

Deliberate blocking of an artery from the inside, using coils, plugs, particles, or liquid agents delivered through a catheter, to shut down an abnormal blood vessel. This is the version used for structural vascular problems - things like an aneurysm or pseudoaneurysm, an arteriovenous malformation, or an abnormal direct connection between an artery and a vein - as opposed to sibling codes covering embolization of veins, of tumors and ischemic organs, or of active bleeding. All the imaging used to find, map, and confirm closure of the target vessel is bundled into the single service rather than reported alongside it.

## Selected release

- Release: Q1 2016 (2016 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2016
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $7829.33
- Facility national allowed amount: $517.01
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 10.05
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 207.38
- Facility practice expense RVU: 3.15
- Malpractice RVU: 1.24
- 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 (Q1 2016)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu16a.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU16_V0122.csv, row 8,190
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/37242/2016/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/37242/2016/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:06:29+00:00