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CPT 84163 Medicare payment status

CPT 84163 has no published national rate. It carries status X (statutory exclusion) in the Q3 2023 release. The statutory definition of physician services does not include this item. The blank amount means unpriced, not $0.

Priced under CLFS

84163 · PFS Q3 2023 · Historical

Status X is not separately payable under the PFS.

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CMS RVU23CJuly 1 – September 30, 2023

CPT 84163 has no published national rate. It carries status X (statutory exclusion) in the Q3 2023 release. The statutory definition of physician services does not include this item. The blank amount means unpriced, not $0.

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PFS status evidence

Physician relative value file (Q3 2023) · rvu23c.zip (PPRRVU23_JUL.csv row 15,423)
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Code
84163
Release
Q3 2023, revision 1
Result
Priced under CLFS

Citations

  • Shows this code’s PFS status (X). Result: Priced under CLFS.

    Physician relative value file (PPRRVU)CMS RVU23CJuly 1 – September 30, 2023

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

    PPRRVU23_JUL.csv row 15,423 in rvu23c.zip

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Plain-text summary

Why is there no national PFS amount for 84163?

Its status indicator is X (statutory exclusion). The statutory definition of physician services does not include this item. Status X is not separately payable under the PFS.

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Other payment indicators (9)

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, Contractor pricing: Does not apply.

Why would a Medicare claim for 84163 be denied or paid less?

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

  • Its status indicator is X (statutory exclusion)—The statutory definition of physician services does not include this item. See status indicators

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.

Which billing rules and modifiers apply? Copy link

Global period: what 84163's fee already covers Copy link

XXX Does not apply

The global surgery concept does not apply to this code.

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Rate history by release Copy link

National Office (non-facility) amount for 84163 across quarterly releases.

Release Status Office Facility
Q4 2026 Oct 1, 2026 – present X — —
Q3 2026 Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026 X — —
Q2 2026 Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026 X — —
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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How often 84163 is billed Copy link

Across Original Medicare in CY2024, 84163 ranked #7,705 of the 7,879 CPT codes billed to Medicare that year, by patients served or total allowed dollars.

Beneficiaries
23
Office + facility beneficiaries combined
Services
23
Times it was billed
Allowed
$335
Total Medicare allowed dollars

2024 Medicare fee-for-service national totals. They exclude Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and commercial volume, so real-world use runs higher. This is a calendar-year snapshot from the CMS Physician & Other Practitioners dataset, on a different cycle from the Q3 2023 fee schedule above.

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Source & method

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This page uses CMS's Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q3 2023 release (effective July 2023). National baselines use GPCI 1.000 and exclude sequestration. Whether a national amount exists depends on the status and CMS’s payment instructions; blank RVUs are never treated as zero. Past releases are never edited, so these sources stay valid after CMS publishes a newer one. Our methodology explains sourcing, parsing, versioning, and how we cross-check claims before we publish them.

Physician relative value file (Q3 2023) · rvu23c.zip (PPRRVU23_JUL.csv row 15,423)

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CPT 84163 National PFS baseline: No national PFS rate (Q3 2023; participating; whole service; GPCI 1.000; sequestration excluded). CMS RVU23C, PPRRVU23_JUL.csv row 15,423. Localis. https://localishealth.com/cpt/84163/2023/C