# CPT 88304

> Medicare paid $43.35 for CPT 88304 in the office (non-facility) setting and $43.35 in a facility under the Q3 2014 Physician Fee Schedule, effective July 2014. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment.

## What it is

A pathologist's examination of a tissue specimen, first by eye and then under the microscope after it is processed onto slides. Surgical pathology is graded into levels by how much work the specimen demands, and this is one of the lower rungs: routine tissue removed for a benign or already-known reason, where the exam mostly confirms the expected. Typical material includes a gallbladder taken out for stones, tonsils, an appendix removed for ordinary inflammation, or a small skin cyst.

## Selected release

- Release: Q3 2014 (2014 C)
- Effective: July 1 – September 30, 2014
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $43.35
- Facility national allowed amount: $43.35
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.22
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 0.97
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.97
- Malpractice RVU: 0.02
- Conversion factor: 35.8228
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q3 2014)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu14c.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU14_V0515.csv, row 14,148
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/88304/2014/B
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/88304/2014/C
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:05:22+00:00