47133 Removal of donor liver
What 47133 is
CMS fee schedule short descriptor: Removal of donor liver.
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 47133 (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 47133 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 47133? These codes are bundled into it
47133 is a Column 1 code in 69 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 |
36000 | Place needle in vein | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair |
36410 | Vnpnxr 3yr/> phy/qhp dx/ther | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair |
36591 | Draw blood off venous device | 0 - no modifier bypass | Check pair |
36592 | Collect blood from picc | 0 - no modifier bypass | Check pair |
43752 | Nasal/orogastric w/tube plmt | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair |
44602 | Suture small intestine | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair |
44603 | Suture small intestine | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair |
44604 | Suture large intestine | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair |
44605 | Repair of bowel lesion | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair |
44820 | Excision of mesentery lesion | 0 - no modifier bypass | Check pair |
44850 | Repair of mesentery | 0 - no modifier bypass | Check pair |
44950 | Appendectomy | 0 - no modifier bypass | Check pair |
44970 | Laparoscopy appendectomy | 0 - no modifier bypass | Check pair |
47000 | Needle biopsy of liver perq | 0 - no modifier bypass | Check pair |
47001 | Ndl biopsy lvr tm oth maj px | 0 - no modifier bypass | Check pair |
47100 | Wedge biopsy of liver | 0 - no modifier bypass | Check pair |
47120 | Partial removal of liver | 0 - no modifier bypass | Check pair |
Showing 30 of 69 column 2 codes. Use the pair checker for any specific combination.
47133 is bundled into these codes
47133 appears as a Column 2 code in 3 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 47133 is the code that denies.
| Column 1 code | Short description | Modifier indicator | |
|---|---|---|---|
47140 | Partial removal donor liver | 1 | Check pair |
47141 | Partial removal donor liver | 1 | Check pair |
47142 | Partial removal donor liver | 1 | 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.