# CPT 63047

> Medicare paid $1,151.26 for CPT 63047 in the office (non-facility) setting and $1,151.26 in a facility under the Q3 2020 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2020. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2020, when it decreased 0.1%.

## What it is

Open surgery on the lower back to take pressure off pinched spinal nerves. The surgeon removes part of the lamina, the bony roof over the spinal canal, and trims away the overgrown facet joint bone, thickened ligament, or bone spurs crowding the nerve, widening both the canal and the side channels where nerves exit. This entry covers one vertebral level in the lumbar spine; neighbouring codes cover the neck and mid-back, and further levels are reported alongside it.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2020 (2020 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2020
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $1151.26
- Facility national allowed amount: $1151.26
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 15.37
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 12.02
- Facility practice expense RVU: 12.02
- Malpractice RVU: 4.51
- Conversion factor: 36.0896
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q3 2020)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu20c-updated-06192020.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU20_V0618.csv, row 11,402
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/63047/2020/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/63047/2020/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:09:46+00:00