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CPT 92650

Excluded from PFS

92650 · PFS Q4 2021 · Historical

Status N: non-covered. Medicare covers no part of this service, so the PFS produces no payment amount.

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Not at a published national rate. CPT 92650 carries status N (non-covered) in the Q4 2021 release. Medicare covers no part of this service. Treat the blank amount as unpriced, not as $0.

PFS status evidence

Physician relative value file (Q4 2021) · rvu21d.zip (PPRRVU21_OCT.csv row 16,201)
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Code
92650
Release
Q4 2021, revision 1
Result
Excluded from PFS

Citations

  • Establishes the PFS status (N) and the resulting pathway for this code: excluded from pfs.

    Physician relative value file (PPRRVU)

    Q4 2021 · revision 1

    Latest revision of this release

    Release period: October 1 – December 31, 2021

    This PFS record alone does not establish a $0 allowance or a coverage determination. Any amount from another schedule needs its own evidence.

    Record details PPRRVU21_OCT.csv in rvu21d.zip (row 16,201)
    hcpcs (col 1)
    92650
    modifier (col 2)
    blank
    status_code (col 4)
    N

    SHA-256: f1972bd23bdc51795ceba7d536bb413a0ba0b47fad8c2ed594e7ee7799877297

    Original source file

Compact facts

Why is there no national PFS amount for 92650?

Its status indicator is N (non-covered). Medicare covers no part of this service. Status N: non-covered. Medicare covers no part of this service, so the PFS produces no payment amount.

Payment considerations Copy link

Review the applicable inputs and payment rules. Each link opens the supporting detail on this page.

Bilateral adjustment Applies
Other payment indicators (9)

Facility/non-facility: Not determined, Professional/technical component: Does not apply, Multiple-procedure reduction: Does not apply, Assistant/co-surgeon treatment: Does not apply, Global surgery: Does not apply, NCCI same-day edits: Not determined, MUE behavior: Not determined, Other fee-schedule routing: Does not apply, Contractor pricing: Does not apply.

Why a 92650 line may not pay separately Copy link

CMS publishes no separately payable amount for 92650 in this release, so reconciling the line means establishing which status governed the date of service rather than chasing a fee-schedule difference.

What to reconcile

  • Confirm the status that governed the date of service before working this line as a short payment—CMS publishes no separately payable fee-schedule amount for it in this release.
  • Check whether a second side was billed separately—the published RVUs already price both sides, so there is no additional amount behind that line.
  • Check for documentation on file before appealing an assistant-at-surgery denial: payment on the -80 or -AS line is restricted for this procedure unless medical necessity is established.
  • Reprice the line against the release, locality, setting, modifier and participation status that applied to the date of service before treating any difference as an underpayment.

Nearby payment lines

National Q4 2021 amounts at GPCI 1.000. A blank means this schedule does not publish a payable PFS amount.

Code Why compare Office Facility
92640 Priced as active rather than non-covered $115.50 $96.30
92651 Priced as active rather than non-covered $91.42 $91.42
92633 Priced as not valid rather than non-covered — —
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Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files; CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files (status indicator field); CMS Medicare Claims Processing Manual (Pub. 100-04); 42 USC 1395w-4(i)(2) (SSA §1848(i)(2))—Assistants-at-surgery.

Payment rules

Global period: what 92650's fee already covers Copy link

XXX Does not apply

The global surgery concept does not apply to this code.

Billing policy Copy link

What 92650's billing-policy indicators mean. These show for every code, priced or not: a restriction like "bilateral not allowed" still matters on a carrier-priced code.

Policy Value What it means
Bilateral surgery 2 RVUs already reflect bilateral pricing. The published RVUs already account for a bilateral procedure—no additional bilateral adjustment applies on top of the fee schedule amount.
Assistant at surgery 0 Restricted without documentation. Payment for an assistant at surgery is restricted for this procedure unless supporting documentation establishes medical necessity.
Co-surgeons 0 Not permitted. Medicare does not recognize co-surgeons (modifier 62) for this procedure.
Team surgery 0 Not permitted. Medicare does not recognize a surgical team (modifier 66) for this procedure.
Multiple procedures 0 No reduction. No payment reduction applies when this procedure is billed with other procedures on the same date—each is treated as unrelated.
Professional/technical split 0 No PC/TC split. This is a physician service code; the professional/technical split does not apply, and the code is billed as a single service.

Can you bill it with another code? Copy link

Enter a second CPT or HCPCS code billed on the same date of service. We'll check the current NCCI procedure-to-procedure edit between it and 92650.

See every current NCCI pair for 92650 →

Common payment questions Copy link

Why would a Medicare claim for 92650 be denied or paid less?

These come from CMS indicators on this page, not general billing advice.

Payer-specific coverage and documentation rules live outside these files, so a claim that clears every check here can still be denied on other grounds.

History

Rate history by release Copy link

National non-facility amount for 92650 across quarterly releases.

Release Status Non-facility Facility
Q4 2026 takes effect Oct 1, 2026 N — —
Q3 2026 Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026 N — —
Q2 2026 Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026 N — —
When does this rate change?

CMS publishes a fee schedule release every quarter (January, April, July, October), and each is versioned here. See what changed each release, or get an email when a new release moves rates.

Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files.

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Source & method

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This page uses CMS's Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q4 2021 release (effective October 2021). National baselines use GPCI 1.000 and exclude sequestration. Status and payment instructions determine whether a national amount is established; blank RVUs stay blank. Releases are immutable: historical evidence remains tied to the specified release. Our methodology covers the depth: sourcing, parsing, versioning, and how we cross-check claims before they ship.

Physician relative value file (Q4 2021) · rvu21d.zip (PPRRVU21_OCT.csv row 16,201)

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Cite this rate

This citation identifies the source release, so its evidence remains reproducible after a newer release lands.

CPT 92650 National PFS baseline: No national PFS rate (Q4 2021; participating; whole service; GPCI 1.000; sequestration excluded). Localis. https://localishealth.com/cpt/92650/2021/D