# CPT 92250

> Medicare paid $66.75 for CPT 92250 in the office (non-facility) setting and $66.75 in a facility under the Q4 2017 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2017. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2017, when it decreased 16.0%.

## What it is

Photographs of the back of the eye, capturing the retina, optic nerve, and blood vessels, together with the clinician's interpretation and written report. The pupils are often dilated first, and the camera flashes once per eye; no dye is injected, which is what separates this from angiography. The images provide a permanent record that later photographs can be compared against, making slow change visible in a way that memory and notes cannot. The report on the findings is part of the service, not an extra.

## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2017 (2017 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2017
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $66.75
- Facility national allowed amount: $66.75
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.40
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 1.44
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.44
- Malpractice RVU: 0.02
- Conversion factor: 35.8887
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2017)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu17d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU17_OCT.csv, row 15,155
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/92250/2017/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/92250/2017/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:07:59+00:00