00540 Anes thoracotomy px nos

What 00540 is

CMS fee schedule short descriptor: Anes thoracotomy px nos.

Full CPT long descriptions are licensed by the American Medical Association and are not published on this site; the short descriptor above is the one CMS prints in its own fee schedule file. See About CPT.

Medicare payment for 00540 (CY2026)

This code has no Physician Fee Schedule rate: Anesthesia service with no RVUs in the standard file. It may be paid under a different fee schedule (clinical laboratory, DMEPOS, anesthesia) or not paid at all - check the relevant CMS schedule.

Billed with 00540? These codes are bundled into it

00540 is a Column 1 code in 299 active NCCI PTP edits. When one of these Column 2 codes is reported on the same date of service, it is denied as bundled - unless the edit's modifier indicator is 1 and documentation supports a distinct service with an NCCI-associated modifier.

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00540 is bundled into these codes

00540 appears as a Column 2 code in 56 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 00540 is the code that denies.

Data: CMS CY2026 Physician Fee Schedule RVU file (October release, RVU26D) and Medicare NCCI PTP practitioner edits v32.3 (2026 Q4). Verify against the official files before billing or contracting decisions.