# CPT 70486

> Medicare paid $141.47 for CPT 70486 in the office (non-facility) setting and $141.47 in a facility under the Q1 2020 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2020. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This is a 0.1% increase from the previous quarter.

## What it is

A CT study of the facial skeleton - the sinuses, nasal passages, orbits, and upper and lower jaw - built from thin slices and reformatted into coronal and sagittal views. This is the plain version, done with no iodinated dye injected into a vein; companion codes cover the contrast-enhanced study and the study done both before and after contrast. Bone detail is the point here, so it is the usual choice for sinus disease and facial trauma.

## Selected release

- Release: Q1 2020 (2020 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2020
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $141.47
- Facility national allowed amount: $141.47
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.85
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 3.01
- Facility practice expense RVU: 3.01
- Malpractice RVU: 0.06
- 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 (Q1 2020)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu20a-updated-01312020.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU20_Jan.csv, row 12,083
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/70486/2020/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/70486/2020/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:09:22+00:00