# CPT 64447

> Medicare paid $124.56 for CPT 64447 in the office (non-facility) setting and $68.76 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 2.7%.

## What it is

A one-time injection of local anesthetic around the femoral nerve in the groin, numbing the front of the thigh and much of the knee. It is usually done with ultrasound so the needle can be walked up to the nerve under direct view. This is the single-shot version - a companion code covers threading a small catheter to keep the block running for days after surgery.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2018 (2018 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2018
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $124.56
- Facility national allowed amount: $68.76
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.50
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 1.84
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.29
- Malpractice RVU: 0.12
- 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 10,967
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/64447/2018/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/64447/2018/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:19+00:00