# CPT 72125

> Medicare paid $158.07 for CPT 72125 in the office (non-facility) setting and $158.07 in a facility under the Q2 2020 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2020. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2020, when it decreased 15.3%.

## What it is

A CT scan of the bones of the neck, sliced thinly and rebuilt into side and front reconstructions, done with no contrast dye. CT is the best test for cervical bone: it finds fractures, dislocations, and bone spurs that plain X-rays miss entirely, which is why it has largely replaced neck X-rays after serious trauma. Contrast versions of this code family exist but are used mainly when infection or tumor spread into surrounding soft tissue is the question; discs and the spinal cord are better seen on MRI.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2020 (2020 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2020
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $158.07
- Facility national allowed amount: $158.07
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.00
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 3.32
- Facility practice expense RVU: 3.32
- 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 (Q2 2020)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu20b-updated-05012020.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU20_APR.csv, row 12,273
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/72125/2020/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/72125/2020/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:09:33+00:00