Anesthesia CPT Codes 2026: Units, Modifiers, and Payment Rules

Anesthesia CPT codes run from 00100 to 01999, and you select them by the surgical procedure performed, not by the type of anesthesia given. Payment follows a formula no other CPT section uses: base units plus time units plus modifying units, multiplied by the payer’s conversion factor. For 2026, Medicare set that factor at $20.4976. […]