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74360 X-ray guide gi dilation

What 74360 is

CMS fee schedule short descriptor: X-ray guide gi dilation.

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 74360 (CY2026)

This code has no Physician Fee Schedule rate: Carrier-priced - the Medicare contractor sets the price. It may be paid under a different fee schedule (clinical laboratory, DMEPOS, anesthesia) or not paid at all - check the relevant CMS schedule.

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Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE)

Medicare caps 74360 at 1 unit per date of service for practitioner claims (MAI 3 - date of service edit (clinical): units above the MUE may pay with documentation on appeal), rationale: Code Descriptor / CPT Instruction. Units above the cap are denied unless the edit's adjudication rules allow an appeal with documentation.

Billed with 74360? These codes are bundled into it

74360 is a Column 1 code in 13 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 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
36591Draw blood off venous device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
36592Collect blood from picc0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
74018Radex abdomen 1 view1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
76000Fluoroscopy <1 hr phys/qhp1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
77001Fluoroguide for vein device1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
77002Needle localization by xray1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
96523Irrig drug delivery device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
99446Ntrprof ph1/ntrnet/ehr 5-100 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
99447Ntrprof ph1/ntrnet/ehr 11-200 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
99448Ntrprof ph1/ntrnet/ehr 21-300 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
99449Ntrprof ph1/ntrnet/ehr 31/>0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
99451Ntrprof ph1/ntrnet/ehr 5/>0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
99452Ntrprof ph1/ntrnet/ehr rfrl0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair

74360 is bundled into these codes

74360 appears as a Column 2 code in 7 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 74360 is the code that denies.

Column 1 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
0884TEsphgsc flx 1st tndsc dilat0Check pair
43213Esophagoscopy retro balloon0Check pair
43214Esophagosc dilate balloon 300Check pair
43233Egd balloon dil esoph30 mm/>0Check pair
74328X-ray bile duct endoscopy1Check pair
74329X-ray for pancreas endoscopy1Check pair
74330X-ray bile/panc endoscopy1Check 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.