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    "code": "70498",
    "coding_system": "CPT",
    "canonical_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/70498/2015/A",
    "release_specific_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/70498/2015/C",
    "description": "A CT scan of the arteries running up the neck to the brain - mainly the carotid arteries and the vertebral arteries - captured while injected contrast dye is passing through them. As with other CT angiography, rebuilding the slices into three-dimensional vessel images and reading them is included. It is frequently done in the same sitting as the head study, since stroke workups usually need to see the whole path from the chest up into the brain.",
    "answer": {
        "question": "How much did Medicare pay for CPT 70498 in Q3 2015?",
        "text": "Medicare paid $294.26 for CPT 70498 in the office (non-facility) setting and $294.26 in a facility under the Q3 2015 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2015. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2015, when it decreased 37.2%."
    },
    "release": {
        "schedule": "pfs",
        "year": 2015,
        "quarter": "C",
        "label": "Q3 2015",
        "effective": "July 1 – September 30, 2015",
        "revision": 1
    },
    "status": {
        "code": "A",
        "non_facility_payable": true,
        "facility_payable": true
    },
    "national_rates_usd": {
        "office_non_facility": 294.26,
        "facility": 294.26,
        "sequestration_applied": false,
        "gpci": 1
    },
    "rvus": {
        "work": 1.75,
        "practice_expense_non_facility": 6.36,
        "practice_expense_facility": 6.36,
        "malpractice": 0.12
    },
    "formula": "(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor",
    "conversion_factor": 35.7547,
    "source": {
        "label": "Physician relative value file (Q3 2015)",
        "cms_url": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu15c.zip",
        "local_source_url": "https://localishealth.com/sources/physician-fee-schedule/2015/C",
        "file": "PPRRVU15_UP0.V0515.csv",
        "row": 11081,
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    },
    "modified_at": "2026-08-04T03:06:00+00:00"
}