# CPT 92136

> Medicare paid $80.28 for CPT 92136 in the office (non-facility) setting and $80.28 in a facility under the Q4 2018 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 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 decreased 11.9%.

## What it is

A set of precise measurements of the eye, chiefly its front-to-back length and corneal curvature, used to calculate the power of the artificial lens implanted during cataract surgery. This version uses an optical technique, in which a light beam measures the eye without touching it, rather than the older ultrasound probe method. The measurements are fed into a formula that predicts what lens power will leave the patient with the intended focus after surgery. Both eyes are commonly measured in the same sitting.

## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2018 (2018 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2018
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $80.28
- Facility national allowed amount: $80.28
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.54
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 1.67
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.67
- Malpractice RVU: 0.02
- 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 (Q4 2018)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu18d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU18_OCT.csv, row 15,307
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/92136/2018/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/92136/2018/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:08:37+00:00