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CPT 77387

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77387 · PFS Q1 2015 · Historical

No national PFS rate in Q1 2015

Status I is not separately payable under the PFS.

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Not at a published national rate. CPT 77387 carries status I (not valid) in the Q1 2015 release. Medicare uses a different code to report and pay for this service. Treat the blank amount as unpriced, not as $0.

PFS status evidence

Physician relative value file (Q1 2015) · rvu15a.zip (PPRRVU15_V1223c.csv row 12,389)
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Code
77387
Release
Q1 2015, revision 1
Result
Unable to determine from available CMS sources

Citations

  • Establishes the PFS status (I) and the resulting pathway for this code: unable to determine from available cms sources.

    Physician relative value file (PPRRVU)

    Q1 2015 · revision 1

    Latest revision of this release

    Release period: January 1 – March 31, 2015

    This PFS record alone does not establish a $0 allowance or a coverage determination. Any amount from another schedule needs its own evidence.

    Record details PPRRVU15_V1223c.csv in rvu15a.zip (row 12,389)
    hcpcs (col 1)
    77387
    modifier (col 2)
    blank
    status_code (col 4)
    I

    SHA-256: d600c52a7d5f75737599c9a879cc0ffc8c85766bee82e9e2eadf49af364314d2

    Original source file

Compact facts

Why is there no national PFS amount for 77387?

Its status indicator is I (not valid). Medicare uses a different code to report and pay for this service. Status I is not separately payable under the PFS.

Payment considerations Copy link

Review the applicable inputs and payment rules. Each link opens the supporting detail on this page.

Other payment indicators (10)

Facility/non-facility: Not determined, Professional/technical component: Does not apply, Bilateral adjustment: Does not apply, Multiple-procedure reduction: Does not apply, Assistant/co-surgeon treatment: Does not apply, Global surgery: Does not apply, NCCI same-day edits: Not determined, MUE behavior: Not determined, Other fee-schedule routing: Does not apply, Contractor pricing: Does not apply.

Why a 77387 line may not pay separately Copy link

CMS publishes no separately payable amount for 77387 in this release, so reconciling the line means establishing which status governed the date of service rather than chasing a fee-schedule difference.

What to reconcile

  • Confirm the status that governed the date of service before working this line as a short payment—CMS publishes no separately payable fee-schedule amount for it in this release.
  • Check for documentation on file before appealing an assistant-at-surgery denial: payment on the -80 or -AS line is restricted for this procedure unless medical necessity is established.
  • Reprice the line against the release, locality, setting, modifier and participation status that applied to the date of service before treating any difference as an underpayment.

Nearby payment lines

National Q1 2015 amounts at GPCI 1.000. A blank means this schedule does not publish a payable PFS amount.

Code Why compare Office Facility
77386 Nearby radiology and imaging line in the same release — —
77401 Priced as active rather than not valid $20.74 $20.74
77385 Nearby radiology and imaging line in the same release — —
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Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files; CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files (status indicator field); 42 USC 1395w-4(i)(2) (SSA §1848(i)(2))—Assistants-at-surgery.

Payment rules

Global period: what 77387's fee already covers Copy link

XXX Does not apply

The global surgery concept does not apply to this code.

Billing policy Copy link

What 77387's billing-policy indicators mean. These show for every code, priced or not: a restriction like "bilateral not allowed" still matters on a carrier-priced code.

Policy Value What it means
Bilateral surgery 0 No bilateral adjustment. The 150% bilateral payment adjustment does not apply to this procedure.
Assistant at surgery 0 Restricted without documentation. Payment for an assistant at surgery is restricted for this procedure unless supporting documentation establishes medical necessity.
Co-surgeons 0 Not permitted. Medicare does not recognize co-surgeons (modifier 62) for this procedure.
Team surgery 0 Not permitted. Medicare does not recognize a surgical team (modifier 66) for this procedure.
Multiple procedures 0 No reduction. No payment reduction applies when this procedure is billed with other procedures on the same date—each is treated as unrelated.
Professional/technical split 0 No PC/TC split. This is a physician service code; the professional/technical split does not apply, and the code is billed as a single service.

Can you bill it with another code? Copy link

Enter a second CPT or HCPCS code billed on the same date of service. We'll check the current NCCI procedure-to-procedure edit between it and 77387.

See every current NCCI pair for 77387 →

Common payment questions Copy link

Why would a Medicare claim for 77387 be denied or paid less?

These come from CMS indicators on this page, not general billing advice.

Payer-specific coverage and documentation rules live outside these files, so a claim that clears every check here can still be denied on other grounds.

History

Rate history by release Copy link

National non-facility amount for 77387 across quarterly releases. Unchanged since Q1 2026 · high $36.41 in Q1 2026

$37 $37 $36 $36 $35 Q1 2026 · $36.41 Q2 2026 · $36.41 (0.0%) Q3 2026 · $36.41 (0.0%) Q4 2026 · $36.41 (0.0%) Q1 2015 Q3 2017 Q4 2019 Q2 2022 Q2 2024 Q4 2026
Non-facility Facility
Release Status Non-facility Facility
Q4 2026 takes effect Oct 1, 2026 A $36.41 (0.0% no change ) $36.41 (0.0% no change )
When does this rate change?

CMS publishes a fee schedule release every quarter (January, April, July, October), and each is versioned here. See what changed each release, or get an email when a new release moves rates.

Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files.

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Source & method

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This page uses CMS's Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q1 2015 release (effective January 2015). National baselines use GPCI 1.000 and exclude sequestration. Status and payment instructions determine whether a national amount is established; blank RVUs stay blank. Releases are immutable: historical evidence remains tied to the specified release. Our methodology covers the depth: sourcing, parsing, versioning, and how we cross-check claims before they ship.

Physician relative value file (Q1 2015) · rvu15a.zip (PPRRVU15_V1223c.csv row 12,389)

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Cite this rate

This citation identifies the source release, so its evidence remains reproducible after a newer release lands.

CPT 77387 National PFS baseline: No national PFS rate (Q1 2015; participating; whole service; GPCI 1.000; sequestration excluded). Localis. https://localishealth.com/cpt/77387/2015/A