`33930` Removal of donor heart/lung

What 33930 is

CMS fee schedule short descriptor: Removal of donor heart/lung.

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 33930 (CY2026)

This code has no Physician Fee Schedule rate: Statutory exclusion - not payable under the Physician Fee Schedule. It may be paid under a different fee schedule (clinical laboratory, DMEPOS, anesthesia) or not paid at all - check the relevant CMS schedule.

Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE)

Medicare caps 33930 at 1 unit per date of service for practitioner claims (MAI 2 - date of service edit (absolute): units above the MUE never pay), rationale: Anatomic Consideration. Units above the cap are denied unless the edit's adjudication rules allow an appeal with documentation.

Billed with 33930? These codes are bundled into it

33930 is a Column 1 code in 65 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.

Column 2 code	Short description	Modifier indicator
`0213T`	Njx paravert w/us cer/thor	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`0216T`	Njx paravert w/us lumb/sac	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`11000`	Dbrdmt ecz/infected skin<10%	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`11001`	Dbrdmt ecz/infct skn ea addl	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`11004`	Dbrdmt skin xtrnl gent&per	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`11005`	Dbrdmt skin abdominal wall	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`11006`	Dbrdmt skin xtrnl gent per	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`11042`	Dbrdmt subq tis 1st 20sqcm/<	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`11043`	Dbrdmt musc&/fsca 1st 20/<	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`11044`	Dbrdmt bone 1st 20 sq cm/<	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`11045`	Dbrdmt subq tiss each addl	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`11046`	Dbrdmt musc&/fsca ea addl	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`11047`	Dbrdmt bone each addl	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`32100`	Exploration of chest	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`32440`	Remove lung pneumonectomy	0 - no modifier bypass	Check pair
`32442`	Sleeve pneumonectomy	0 - no modifier bypass	Check pair
`32445`	Removal of lung extrapleural	0 - no modifier bypass	Check pair
`32480`	Partial removal of lung	0 - no modifier bypass	Check pair
`32482`	Bilobectomy	0 - no modifier bypass	Check pair
`32484`	Segmentectomy	0 - no modifier bypass	Check pair
`32486`	Sleeve lobectomy	0 - no modifier bypass	Check pair
`32488`	Completion pneumonectomy	0 - no modifier bypass	Check pair
`32491`	Lung volume reduction	0 - no modifier bypass	Check pair
`32505`	Wedge resect of lung initial	0 - no modifier bypass	Check pair
`33210`	Insert electrd/pm cath sngl	0 - no modifier bypass	Check pair
`33211`	Insert card electrodes dual	0 - no modifier bypass	Check pair
`33310`	Exploratory heart surgery	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`33315`	Exploratory heart surgery	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`36000`	Place needle in vein	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair
`36410`	Vnpnxr 3yr/> phy/qhp dx/ther	1 - modifier may bypass	Check pair

Showing 30 of 65 column 2 codes. Use the pair checker for any specific combination.

33930 is bundled into these codes

33930 appears as a Column 2 code in 1 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 33930 is the code that denies.

Column 1 code	Short description	Modifier indicator
`33267`	Excl laa open any method	0	Check pair

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.