# HCPCS G0518

> Medicare paid $381.47 for HCPCS G0518 in the office (non-facility) setting and $178.42 in a facility under the Q4 2024 Physician Fee Schedule, effective October 2024. These are the national allowed amounts before the ~2% sequestration cut and before locality (GPCI) adjustment. Across payment localities, the office amount is $341.92–$501.71 and the facility amount is $167.60–$238.97. This price has been unchanged since Q1 2024, when it decreased 2.4%.

## What it is

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## Selected release

- Release: Q4 2024 (2024 D)
- Effective: October 1 – December 31, 2024
- Status indicator: A
- Office (non-facility) national allowed amount: $381.47
- Facility national allowed amount: $178.42
- Sequestration: not applied

## RVUs and formula

- Work RVU: 3.55
- Office (non-facility) practice expense RVU: 7.70
- Facility practice expense RVU: 1.60
- Malpractice RVU: 0.21
- Conversion factor: 33.2875
- Formula: `(work_rvu × work_gpci + pe_rvu × pe_gpci + mp_rvu × mp_gpci) × conversion_factor`

## Source and citation

- Source: Physician relative value file (Q4 2024)
- CMS file: https://www.cms.gov/files/zip/rvu24d.zip
- Parsed file: PPRRVU24_OCT.csv, row 2,068
- Canonical page: https://localishealth.com/hcpcs/G0518/2024/A
- Release-specific citation URL: https://localishealth.com/hcpcs/G0518/2024/D
- Last significant update: 2026-08-04T03:14:25+00:00