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    "code": "77338",
    "coding_system": "CPT",
    "canonical_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/77338/2016/A",
    "release_specific_url": "https://localishealth.com/cpt/77338/2016/C",
    "description": "Designing and setting up the beam-shaping hardware that makes intensity-modulated treatment possible. A multi-leaf collimator is a bank of narrow metal leaves in the head of the linear accelerator; each leaf moves independently, and the sequence of their positions carves the beam into the shapes the IMRT plan calls for. This covers working out and constructing those leaf patterns for the specific plan, and is done once per plan rather than at each treatment session.",
    "answer": {
        "question": "How much did Medicare pay for CPT 77338 in Q3 2016?",
        "text": "Medicare paid $513.43 for CPT 77338 in the office (non-facility) setting and $513.43 in a facility under the Q3 2016 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2016. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2016, when it increased 1.0%."
    },
    "release": {
        "schedule": "pfs",
        "year": 2016,
        "quarter": "C",
        "label": "Q3 2016",
        "effective": "July 1 – September 30, 2016",
        "revision": 1
    },
    "status": {
        "code": "A",
        "non_facility_payable": true,
        "facility_payable": true
    },
    "national_rates_usd": {
        "office_non_facility": 513.43,
        "facility": 513.43,
        "sequestration_applied": false,
        "gpci": 1
    },
    "rvus": {
        "work": 4.29,
        "practice_expense_non_facility": 9.81,
        "practice_expense_facility": 9.81,
        "malpractice": 0.24
    },
    "formula": "(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor",
    "conversion_factor": 35.8043,
    "source": {
        "label": "Physician relative value file (Q3 2016)",
        "cms_url": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu16c.zip",
        "local_source_url": "https://localishealth.com/sources/physician-fee-schedule/2016/C",
        "file": "PPRRVU16_V0517.csv",
        "row": 12588,
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    },
    "modified_at": "2026-08-04T03:06:56+00:00"
}