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CPT 86741

Priced under CLFS

86741 · PFS Q4 2025 · Historical

Status X is not separately payable under the PFS.

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Not at a published national rate. CPT 86741 carries status X (statutory exclusion) in the Q4 2025 release. The statutory definition of physician services does not include this item. Treat the blank amount as unpriced, not as $0.

PFS status evidence

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Code
86741
Release
Q4 2025, revision 1
Result
Priced under CLFS

Citations

  • Establishes the PFS status (X) and the resulting pathway for this code: priced under clfs.

    Physician relative value file (PPRRVU)

    Q4 2025 · revision 1

    Latest revision of this release

    Release period: October 1 – December 31, 2025

    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 PPRRVU2025_Oct.csv in rvu25d-updated-09-11-2025.zip (row 10,574)
    hcpcs (col 1)
    86741
    modifier (col 2)
    blank
    status_code (col 4)
    X

    SHA-256: 8af460f38bf982b79b07269fbc8b7256a8ef3bd3aa025a9c5cb71c1e52523c56

    Original source file

Compact facts

Why is there no national PFS amount for 86741?

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.

Payment rules

Global period: what 86741's fee already covers Copy link

XXX Does not apply

The global surgery concept does not apply to this code.

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Why would a Medicare claim for 86741 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.

History

Rate history by release Copy link

National non-facility amount for 86741 across quarterly releases.

Release Status Non-facility Facility
Q4 2026 takes effect Oct 1, 2026 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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Source & method

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This page uses CMS's Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q4 2025 release (effective October 2025). 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.

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CPT 86741 National PFS baseline: No national PFS rate (Q4 2025; participating; whole service; GPCI 1.000; sequestration excluded). Localis. https://localishealth.com/cpt/86741/2025/D