# CPT 65778

> Medicare paid $1,086.50 for CPT 65778 in the office (non-facility) setting and $43.27 in a facility under the Q2 2024 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2024. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2024, when it decreased 19.3%.

## What it is

Placement of a piece of processed human amniotic membrane, the innermost layer of placental tissue, onto the surface of the eye as a biological bandage. The membrane is rich in factors that calm inflammation, limit scarring, and encourage the surface to heal over. This version is the self-retaining approach, held in place by a ring or the eye's own surface rather than fixed with sutures, which lets it be done in a clinic room rather than an operating room.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2024 (2024 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2024
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $1086.50
- Facility national allowed amount: $43.27
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.84
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 31.76
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.42
- Malpractice RVU: 0.04
- Conversion factor: 33.2875
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2024)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu24b-updated-03/18/2024.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU24_APR.csv, row 12,782
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/65778/2024/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/65778/2024/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:13:49+00:00