Participating physician · Before sequestration
CMS evidence · Q2 2026 release
( Work5.61 × 1.000 + Practice exp.70.39 × 1.000 + Malpractice0.95 × 1.000 ) × Conv. factor$33.4009 = $2,570.20
F Work RVU
5.61
G Non‑facility PE RVU
70.39
K MP RVU
0.95
Z Conversion factor
33.4009
( Work5.61 × 1.000 + Practice exp.1.78 × 1.000 + Malpractice0.95 × 1.000 ) × Conv. factor$33.4009 = $278.56
F Work RVU
5.61
I Facility PE RVU
1.78
K MP RVU
0.95
Z Conversion factor
33.4009
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Nationally priced under PFS, using the RVU formula.
CMS RVU26BApril 1 – June 30, 2026
The national PFS baseline was $2,570.20 for CPT 60660 in the Office (non-facility) setting and $278.56 in a facility under the Q2 2026 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2026. These are the national allowed amounts before locality (GPCI) adjustment; sequestration is excluded.
Why are the facility and non-facility amounts different?
Only the practice-expense RVU changes with the setting. For 60660 it's 70.39 RVUs in the Office (non-facility) setting versus 1.78 in a facility—the whole $2,291.64 gap between $2,570.20 and $278.56. In the Office (non-facility) setting the practice bears the overhead, so the allowed amount is higher; in a hospital or ASC the facility bills its own fee, so the professional amount is lower. See facility vs non-facility.
Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files; CMS Practice Expense methodology (cms.gov).
Contract rate as % of Medicare Copy link
Applies to your locality's allowed amount, not the $2,570.20 national baseline. How to find your contract's percentage.
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Allowed amount, Medicare's share, and patient share Copy link
A physician's $2,570.20 Office (non-facility) allowed amount: Medicare pays $2,015.04 after sequestration and the patient owes $514.04, once the Part B deductible is met.
| Billed by | Allowed amount | Participating claim | If not participating | ||
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| What Medicare pays | Patient coinsurance | Non-participating amount | Limiting charge | ||
| Physician (MD/DO) 100% Calculator | $2,570.20 | $2,015.04 $2,056.16 − $41.12 | $514.04 | $2,441.69 | $2,807.94 |
| Physician assisting at surgery (-80, -81, -82) Calculator | Not payable | ||||
National Q2 2026, GPCI 1.000. Each % applies before the 80/20 split and sequestration.
Is $2,570.20 what a practice actually receives?
It's the national allowed amount—the starting point. Medicare pays 80% of it ($2,056.16) and the patient owes 20% coinsurance ($514.04). Sequestration trims Medicare's share by about 2%, your locality's GPCIs scale the total up or down, and the expected-payment calculator applies all three. That payment is practice revenue that covers staff, space, equipment, and billing. It isn't the clinician's take-home pay. The practice-expense RVU above is CMS's estimate of that overhead share.
Sources: Budget Control Act sequestration provisions; CMS Medicare Fee-for-Service payment guidance; CMS Geographic Practice Cost Index (GPCI) files; CMS Physician Fee Schedule overview (cms.gov).
What's the non-participating amount for 60660?
$2,441.69 in the Office (non-facility) setting—95% of the $2,570.20 participating fee schedule amount above. A participating provider takes the fee schedule amount as payment in full on every claim. A non-participating provider is paid this reduced amount, but chooses claim by claim whether to accept assignment. See participating vs non-participating.
Sources: CMS Physician Fee Schedule overview (cms.gov); CMS Medicare Fee-for-Service payment guidance.
What's the limiting charge for 60660?
$2,807.94 in the Office (non-facility) setting—the ceiling on what a non-participating provider can bill the patient on an unassigned claim. That's 109.25% of the $2,570.20 amount above. The non-participating amount is 95% of the fee schedule rate ($2,441.69), and the statutory cap is 115% of that. See limiting charge.
Sources: CMS Physician Fee Schedule overview (cms.gov); CMS Medicare Fee-for-Service payment guidance.
CMS RVU26BApril 1 – June 30, 2026 See file rows
Which billing rules and modifiers apply? Copy link
CMS indicators that apply to 60660: GLOB DAYS 000 (same day only) · MULT PROC 2 (standard reduction applies).
Same day only
GLOB DAYS
000
The fee covers pre-operative and post-operative work on the day of the procedure only—there is no follow-up window afterward. A visit the next day is separately payable.
Standard reduction applies
MULT PROC
2
When billed with other procedures on the same date, the highest-valued one is paid at 100% and the next four at 50% each.
-51 depends on the other codes on the same claim, so it's a claim-level number rather than a per-code one.
Not payable with 60660: -26/TC · -50 · -80/81/82 · -AS · -62 · -66.
Why would a Medicare claim for 60660 be denied or paid less?
These come from CMS indicators on this page, not general billing advice.
- Bilateral surgery: no bilateral adjustment. See billing policy
- Assistant at surgery: never separately payable. See billing policy
- Co-surgeons: not permitted. See billing policy
- Team surgery: not permitted. See billing policy
- Multiple procedures: standard reduction applies. See billing policy
Payer-specific coverage and documentation rules live outside these files, so a claim that clears every check here can still be denied on other grounds.
CMS RVU26BApril 1 – June 30, 2026 See file rows
Can you bill it with another code? Copy link
Payment review for 60660 Copy link
What to check (5)
Four published payment rules can change what 60660 allows on a claim: the office/facility differential, the same-day global package, the standard multiple-procedure reduction and the assistant-at-surgery prohibition. Each is a legitimate reason for a paid amount to differ from the fee-schedule amount on this page.
- Check the place-of-service code before attributing the gap to the payer: office and facility pricing differ by $2,291.64 nationally at GPCI 1.000, before any locality adjustment.
- Check the visit date: this code carries no follow-up window, so a related visit the day after the procedure is separately payable and should not have bundled.
- Rank the claim’s procedure lines before calling this one short-paid: billed with a higher-valued procedure on the same date, its allowed amount is $1,285.10 instead of $2,570.20 (national, GPCI 1.000). That is the rule, not a payer error.
- Expect an assistant-at-surgery denial here rather than appealing it—a -80 or -AS line on this procedure is never separately payable.
- Reprice the line against the release, locality, setting, modifier and participation status that applied to the date of service before treating any difference as an underpayment.
Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files; CMS Practice Expense methodology (cms.gov); CMS Medicare Claims Processing Manual (Pub. 100-04); 42 USC 1395w-4(i)(2) (SSA §1848(i)(2))—Assistants-at-surgery.
How location and RVUs set the amount Copy link
Office (non-facility): 76.95 RVUs × $33.4009 = $2,570.20 national PFS baseline. Local GPCIs move it from $2,223.31 in Arkansas, AR to $3,615.27 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (San Benito County), CA.
Office (non-facility)
| Component | RVU | × GPCI | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work | 5.61 | 1.000 | 5.61 |
| Practice expense | 70.39 | 1.000 | 70.39 |
| Malpractice | 0.95 | 1.000 | 0.95 |
| Total RVUs | 76.95 | ||
| × Conversion factor | $33.4009 | ||
| = National PFS baseline | $2,570.20 | ||
Facility
| Component | RVU | × GPCI | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work | 5.61 | 1.000 | 5.61 |
| Practice expense | 1.78 | 1.000 | 1.78 |
| Malpractice | 0.95 | 1.000 | 0.95 |
| Total RVUs | 8.34 | ||
| × Conversion factor | $33.4009 | ||
| = National PFS baseline | $278.56 | ||
Rates by locality Copy link
60660 Office (non-facility) by metro, highest first
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60660 Facility by metro, highest first
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Q2 2026, each locality's GPCIs, before sequestration. Multi-locality states are shaded by their mean. Look up your exact locality →
CMS RVU26BApril 1 – June 30, 2026 See file rows
Source & method Copy link
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01 PPRRVU2026_Apr_nonQPP.csv · Q2 2026 (RVU26B) · row 6,627—status A, RVUs limits
- Effective
- April 1 – June 30, 2026
- Locator
- PPRRVU2026_Apr_nonQPP.csv in rvu26b-updated-05-01-2026.zip · row 6,627 of 19,277 · via CMS
- Fields read
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Status A (col 4) Work RVU 5.61 (col 6) Office (non-facility) PE RVU 70.39 (col 7) Facility PE RVU 1.78 (col 9) Malpractice RVU 0.95 (col 11)SHA-256 afc9cf9fe6074251…
- Doesn’t establish
- A locality-adjusted allowed amount, or the payment after sequestration. National baselines use GPCI 1.000 and exclude sequestration.
- Note
- Whether a national amount exists depends on the status and CMS’s payment instructions; blank RVUs are never treated as zero.
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02 Conversion factor · same file · row 6,627 · column 26—$33.4009
- Source
- Conversion factor, read from the same file as the RVUs
Cite this rate
CPT 60660 National PFS baseline: Office (non-facility) $2,570.20; Facility $278.56 (Q2 2026; participating physician; whole service; GPCI 1.000; sequestration excluded). CMS RVU26B, PPRRVU2026_Apr_nonQPP.csv row 6,627. Localis. https://localishealth.com/cpt/60660/2026/B
Past releases are never edited, so the citation stays checkable after CMS publishes a newer one. Methodology · Plain-text summary · JSON
How has it changed? Copy link
$2,570.20 Office (non-facility) and $278.56 Facility since Jan 1, 2026, after a +7.5% increase in the Office (non-facility) amount.
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Jan 1, 2026 – present
Q1 2026
Still in effect · 4 releases at this rate- Office
- $2,570.20 (+$179.15, +7.5% increase)
- Facility
- $278.56 (−$28.41, -9.3% decrease)
Q1 2026 Jan 1, 2026 – Mar 31, 2026 · Q2 2026 Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026 · Q3 2026 Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026 · Q4 2026 Oct 1, 2026 – present
- +$108.23 practice-expense RVUs
- +$77.94 the conversion factor
- −$4.68 work RVUs
- −$2.34 malpractice RVUs
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Jan 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025
Q1 2025
4 releases at this rate- Office
- $2,391.05
- Facility
- $306.97
Q1 2025 Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025 · Q2 2025 Apr 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2025 · Q3 2025 Jul 1, 2025 – Sep 30, 2025 · Q4 2025 Oct 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025
Earliest release in this history.
National baseline (GPCI 1.000), before sequestration.
How each change is split
When does this rate change?
CMS publishes a fee schedule release every quarter (January, April, July, October), and each is versioned here. See what changed each release, or get an email when a new release moves rates.
The 60660 rate last moved in Q1 2026. See its rate history.
Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files.
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