Specialty rate rollup
General Surgery
Common general-surgery procedures — appendectomy, cholecystectomy, hernia repair, and breast surgery.
A curated starter set for comparison—not a claim that every specialty bills every code, and not a utilization-weighted average.
At a glance
Q2 2018 compared with the prior available PFS release.
Conversion factor: 0.0% no change
Payable codes
7 / 7
Changed this release
0
Largest increase
None
Largest decrease
None
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Current national rates Copy link
Q2 2018 releaseOffice (non-facility) and facility professional amounts, GPCI 1.000, before sequestration.
| Code and service | Status | Office (non-facility) | Facility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visits and evaluation | |||
| 99204 Long New Patient Office Visit | Active |
$167.40
No price history
|
$131.76
No price history
|
| 99213 Routine Follow-Up Office Visit | Active |
$74.16
No price history
|
$52.20
No price history
|
| 99214 Long Follow-Up Office Visit | Active |
$109.44
No price history
|
$79.92
No price history
|
| Surgical and endoscopic procedures | |||
| 44950 | Active |
$668.87
No price history
|
$668.87
No price history
|
| 47562 | Active |
$685.43
No price history
|
$685.43
No price history
|
| 49505 | Active |
$541.07
No price history
|
$541.07
No price history
|
| 19301 | Active |
$675.71
No price history
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$675.71
No price history
|
Every code links to its contracted-rate (% of Medicare) table and a full RVU breakdown, plus billing-policy context and rate history.
How often these codes appear in Medicare Copy link
Across Original Medicare nationally in CY2024, the covered codes on this page accounted for the activity below. This is use by clinicians of all specialties—not a General Surgery utilization mix—and it is on a different publication cycle from the fee schedule.
Services
185.9M
Times these codes were billed
Allowed dollars
$20.1B
Across covered Medicare FFS services
Most used in this set
99214
103.7M services
Coverage: 7 of 7 displayed codes. HCPCS Level II and excluded drug codes may not appear in this utilization dataset.
Turn the list into contract math
Analyze a payer offer using these General Surgery codes
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Get notified when General Surgery rates change
Medicare updates the fee schedule every quarter. We'll email you only when a release moves one of the 7 General Surgery codes on this page.
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Source & method Copy link
Amounts computed from the CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q2 2018 release , GPCI 1.000, before the ~2% sequestration cut. This is our own clean-room grouping by common clinical scenario, not the AMA’s code-family taxonomy. It is a curated starter set, not a utilization-weighted specialty mix. A code with no amount is either not separately payable under the PFS or absent from the release—never a fake $0.