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Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Effective CMS RVU17D Updated

CPT 99486 Medicare payment status

Bundled / not separately paid

99486 · PFS Q4 2017 · Historical

Status B is not separately payable under the PFS.

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CMS RVU17DOctober 1 – December 31, 2017

PFS status evidence

Physician relative value file (Q4 2017) · rvu17d.zip (PPRRVU17_OCT.csv row 16,482)
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Code
99486
Release
Q4 2017, revision 1
Result
Bundled / not separately paid

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  • Shows this code’s PFS status (B). Result: Bundled / not separately paid.

    Physician relative value file (PPRRVU)CMS RVU17DOctober 1 – December 31, 2017

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

    PPRRVU17_OCT.csv row 16,482 in rvu17d.zip

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CPT 99486 has no published national rate. It carries status B (bundled) in the Q4 2017 release. Medicare folds payment for this code into the service it is incident to, never onto its own line. The blank amount means unpriced, not $0.

Why is there no national PFS amount for 99486?

Its status indicator is B (bundled). Medicare folds payment for this code into the service it is incident to, never onto its own line. Status B is not separately payable under the PFS.

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Here are the inputs and payment rules that apply to this code. Each link takes you to the detail below.

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 would a Medicare claim for 99486 be denied or paid less?

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

  • Its status indicator is B (bundled)—Medicare folds payment for this code into the service it is incident to, never onto its own line. 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 99486'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 a 99486 line may not pay separately Copy link

CMS publishes no separately payable amount for 99486 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 check

  • 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 the place of service: CMS publishes no Office (non-facility) practice-expense amount for this code, so it prices in a Facility setting only.
  • 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.

Compare against 99485, 99487 and 99489: their amounts are in Related codes.

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Sources: CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files; CMS Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Relative Value Files (status indicator field); CMS Practice Expense methodology (cms.gov).

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Rate history by release Copy link

National Office (non-facility) amount for 99486 across quarterly releases.

Release Status Office Facility
Q4 2026 Oct 1, 2026 – present B — —
Q3 2026 Jul 1, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026 B — —
Q2 2026 Apr 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2026 B — —
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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This page uses CMS's Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Q4 2017 release (effective October 2017). 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 (Q4 2017) · rvu17d.zip (PPRRVU17_OCT.csv row 16,482)

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CPT 99486 National PFS baseline: No national PFS rate (Q4 2017; participating physician; whole service; GPCI 1.000; sequestration excluded). CMS RVU17D, PPRRVU17_OCT.csv row 16,482. Localis. https://localishealth.com/cpt/99486/2017/D