# CPT 53850

> Medicare paid $1,636.54 for CPT 53850 in the office (non-facility) setting and $363.99 in a facility under the Q1 2019 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2019. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. Across payment localities, the office amount is $1,438.55–$2,142.39 and the facility amount is $331.44–$472.70. This is a 23.9% decrease from the previous quarter.

## Selected release

- Release: Q1 2019 (2019 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2019
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $1636.54
- Facility national allowed amount: $363.99
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 5.42
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 39.40
- Facility practice expense RVU: 4.09
- Malpractice RVU: 0.59
- Conversion factor: 36.0391
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q1 2019)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu19a.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU19_V1213.csv, row 10,327
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/53850/2019/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/53850/2019/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:45+00:00