# CPT 77280

> Medicare paid $287.28 for CPT 77280 in the office (non-facility) setting and $287.28 in a facility under the Q2 2018 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2018. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2018, when it increased 3.0%.

## What it is

A rehearsal session that sets up the geometry of radiation treatment before any therapeutic dose is given. The patient is positioned exactly as they will be for treatment, imaging confirms where the beam will land, and reference marks are placed on the skin or on an immobilization device so the setup can be reproduced every day. Simple is the most basic level, used for a single treatment area handled with one or two beam directions, without elaborate shaping.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2018 (2018 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2018
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $287.28
- Facility national allowed amount: $287.28
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.70
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 7.24
- Facility practice expense RVU: 7.24
- Malpractice RVU: 0.04
- Conversion factor: 35.9996
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2018)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu18b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU18_APR.csv, row 12,822
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/77280/2018/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/77280/2018/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:19+00:00