# CPT 52310

> Medicare paid $253.08 for CPT 52310 in the office (non-facility) setting and $158.04 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 1.5%.

## What it is

A lighted scope is passed through the urethra so the surgeon can find and pull out something that does not belong there - most often a ureteral stent left from an earlier procedure, but also a stone fragment or other foreign object sitting loose in the bladder or urethra. Grasping forceps or a basket are passed down the scope and the object is drawn out whole. This is the straightforward version, where the item is easy to see and comes out without additional cutting, crushing, or extended manipulation; a harder retrieval is coded separately.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2018 (2018 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2018
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $253.08
- Facility national allowed amount: $158.04
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 2.81
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 3.91
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.27
- Malpractice RVU: 0.31
- 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 10,011
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/52310/2018/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/52310/2018/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:19+00:00