# CPT 72197

> Medicare paid $507.36 for CPT 72197 in the office (non-facility) setting and $507.36 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 3.0%.

## What it is

An MRI of the pelvis performed both without and then with contrast dye given through a vein, so the two sets of images can be compared. The pelvis here means the soft tissue contents - bladder, rectum, prostate or uterus and ovaries, and the surrounding muscle and bone. The dye highlights blood flow into abnormal tissue, which is what makes this the version chosen when a mass or an inflammatory process is the concern.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2015 (2015 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2015
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $507.36
- Facility national allowed amount: $507.36
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 2.26
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 11.77
- Facility practice expense RVU: 11.77
- Malpractice RVU: 0.16
- 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 (Q3 2015)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu15c.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU15_UP0.V0515.csv, row 11,330
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/72197/2015/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/72197/2015/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:06:00+00:00