# CPT 47538

> Medicare paid $4,391.70 for CPT 47538 in the office (non-facility) setting and $247.63 in a facility under the Q4 2017 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2017. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2017, when it decreased 4.2%.

## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2017 (2017 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2017
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $4391.70
- Facility national allowed amount: $247.63
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 4.75
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 117.20
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.73
- Malpractice RVU: 0.42
- Conversion factor: 35.8887
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2017)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu17d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU17_OCT.csv, row 9,420
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/47538/2017/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/47538/2017/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:07:59+00:00