# CPT 97610

> Medicare paid $120.66 for CPT 97610 in the office (non-facility) setting and $16.11 in a facility under the Q2 2016 Physician Fee Schedule, effective April 2016. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2016, when it decreased 2.1%.

## What it is

Wound treatment using low-frequency ultrasound delivered through a fine saline mist, so the device never touches the wound bed and does not heat the tissue. The single code covers the whole session — the ultrasound itself, any topical products applied, assessment of the wound, and instructions for care between visits — and is reported once per day regardless of how many wounds are treated.

## Selected release

- Release: Q2 2016 (2016 B)
- Effective: April 1 – June 30, 2016
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $120.66
- Facility national allowed amount: $16.11
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 0.35
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 3.01
- Facility practice expense RVU: 0.09
- Malpractice RVU: 0.01
- Conversion factor: 35.8043
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q2 2016)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/medicare/medicare-fee-for-service-payment/physicianfeesched/downloads/rvu16b.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU16_April_V0202.csv, row 16,058
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/cpt/97610/2016/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/cpt/97610/2016/B
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:06:42+00:00