# CPT 66982

> Medicare paid $808.93 for CPT 66982 in the office (non-facility) setting and $808.93 in a facility under the Q2 2017 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2017. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2017, when it increased 0.3%.

## What it is

Removal of a clouded natural lens and implantation of an artificial one, in an eye that makes the operation genuinely harder than routine. The surgeon still breaks up and removes the cataract and places a lens implant, but has to add steps ordinary cases do not need — stretching a pupil that will not dilate, staining a dense white cataract so the capsule can be seen, or bracing a weak or torn capsule with a support ring or sutures. What sets this apart from standard cataract surgery is the difficulty of the eye and the extra hardware and technique required, not a different end result.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2017 (2017 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2017
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $808.93
- Facility national allowed amount: $808.93
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 11.08
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 10.67
- Facility practice expense RVU: 10.67
- Malpractice RVU: 0.79
- Conversion factor: 35.8887
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2017)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu17b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU17_V0209.csv, row 11,069
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/66982/2017/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/66982/2017/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:07:42+00:00