# CPT 51741

> Medicare paid $14.31 for CPT 51741 in the office (non-facility) setting and $14.31 in a facility under the Q2 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2021. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2021, when it decreased 3.3%.

## What it is

A test of how fast and how completely someone empties their bladder, done with electronic equipment that records the flow rate continuously and plots it as a curve over time. The patient urinates into a special funnel-shaped collector connected to a sensor, and the machine reports peak flow, average flow, total volume, and how long voiding took. The complex version is the instrumented, calibrated recording; a simpler study relies on basic timing and measurement rather than a full electronic trace.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2021 (2021 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2021
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $14.31
- Facility national allowed amount: $14.31
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.17
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.21
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.21
- Malpractice RVU: 0.03
- Conversion factor: 34.8931
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2021)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu21b-updated-03022021.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU21_APR.csv, row 10,475
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/51741/2021/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/51741/2021/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:10:33+00:00