# CPT 72128

> Medicare paid $180.20 for CPT 72128 in the office (non-facility) setting and $180.20 in a facility under the Q2 2015 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 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 6.8%.

## What it is

A CT scan of the twelve rib-bearing vertebrae of the mid back, taken without contrast dye and reformatted into multiple planes. It is chosen when the question is bony: is a vertebra fractured, how badly has it collapsed, has a cancer eaten into the bone. This is the least common of the three spinal CT regions, since mid-back problems are less frequent than neck and low back ones, and companion codes cover the same region with contrast.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2015 (2015 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2015
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $180.20
- Facility national allowed amount: $180.20
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 1.00
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 3.98
- Facility practice expense RVU: 3.98
- Malpractice RVU: 0.06
- Conversion factor: 35.7547
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2015)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu15b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU15_V0213_Current.csv, row 11,257
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/72128/2015/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/72128/2015/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:05:48+00:00