# CPT 73562

> Medicare paid $41.17 for CPT 73562 in the office (non-facility) setting and $41.17 in a facility under the Q4 2021 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2021. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2021, when it increased 3.7%.

## What it is

A plain X-ray of the knee taken from three angles. The third picture - often a skyline view of the kneecap or an angled shot through the back of the joint - shows areas the standard front and side images hide. It sits between the brief one-or-two-view knee study and the four-or-more-view complete series.

## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2021 (2021 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2021
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $41.17
- Facility national allowed amount: $41.17
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.18
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.98
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.98
- Malpractice RVU: 0.02
- Conversion factor: 34.8931
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2021)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu21d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU21_OCT.csv, row 12,639
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/73562/2021/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/73562/2021/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:10:59+00:00