# CPT 92136

> Medicare paid $63.52 for CPT 92136 in the office (non-facility) setting and $63.52 in a facility under the Q1 2020 Physician Fee Schedule, effective January 2020. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This is a 11.0% decrease from the previous quarter.

## 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: Q1 2020 (2020 A)
- Effective: January 1 – March 31, 2020
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $63.52
- Facility national allowed amount: $63.52
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.54
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 1.20
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.20
- Malpractice RVU: 0.02
- Conversion factor: 36.0896
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q1 2020)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu20a-updated-01312020.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU20_Jan.csv, row 15,814
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/92136/2020/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/92136/2020/A
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:09:22+00:00