# CPT 72197

> Medicare paid $358.19 for CPT 72197 in the office (non-facility) setting and $358.19 in a facility under the Q2 2023 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2023. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2023, when it decreased 3.1%.

## 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: Q2 2023 (2023 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2023
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $358.19
- Facility national allowed amount: $358.19
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 2.20
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 8.22
- Facility practice expense RVU: 8.22
- Malpractice RVU: 0.15
- Conversion factor: 33.8872
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2023)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu23b-updated-02/27/2023.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU23_APR.csv, row 13,046
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/72197/2023/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/72197/2023/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:12:43+00:00