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76937 Us guide vascular access

What 76937 is

CMS fee schedule short descriptor: Us guide vascular access.

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 76937 (CY2026)

Work RVUPractice expense RVUMalpractice RVUTotalMedicare rate
Non-facility (office)0.290.880.041.21$40.42
Facility (hospital, ASC)0.290.880.041.21$40.42

National rates: total RVUs x the CY2026 conversion factor of 33.4009 (non-QP), before geographic adjustment. Actual Medicare payment is 80% of the rate shown after the deductible; the patient or secondary payer owes the 20% coinsurance.


Status: Active - payable under the Physician Fee Schedule. Global period: Add-on code: global period of the primary procedure applies.

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Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE)

Medicare caps 76937 at 2 units 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: Clinical: Data. Units above the cap are denied unless the edit's adjudication rules allow an appeal with documentation.

Billed with 76937? These codes are bundled into it

76937 is a Column 1 code in 15 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
0689TQuan us tis charac w/o dx us1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
0690TQuan us tis charac w/dx us1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
36591Draw blood off venous device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
36592Collect blood from picc0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
76000Fluoroscopy <1 hr phys/qhp1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
76942Echo guide for biopsy1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
76998Us guide intraop1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
77002Needle localization by xray1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
96523Irrig drug delivery device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
99446Ntrprof ph1/ntrnet/ehr 5-101 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99447Ntrprof ph1/ntrnet/ehr 11-201 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99448Ntrprof ph1/ntrnet/ehr 21-301 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99449Ntrprof ph1/ntrnet/ehr 31/>1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99451Ntrprof ph1/ntrnet/ehr 5/>1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99452Ntrprof ph1/ntrnet/ehr rfrl1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair

76937 is bundled into these codes

76937 appears as a Column 2 code in 73 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 76937 is the code that denies.

Column 1 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
0505TEv fempop artl revsc1Check pair
0515TInsj wcs lv compl sys1Check pair
0516TInsj wcs lv eltrd only1Check pair
0517TInsj wcs lv both compnt pg1Check pair
0518TRmvl pg wcs lv battery only1Check pair
0519TRmv&rplcmt pg wcs lv both1Check pair
0520TRmv&rplcmt pg wcs lv battery1Check pair
0524TEv cath dir chem abltj w/img1Check pair
0613TPerq tcat intratrl septl sht1Check pair
0620TEvasc ven artlz tibl/prnl vn1Check pair
0645TTcat impltj c sins rdctj dev1Check pair
0795TTcat ins 2chmbr ldls pm cmpl0Check pair
0796TTcat ins 2chmbr ldls pm ra0Check pair
0797TTcat ins 2chmbr ldls pm rv0Check pair
0798TTcat rmv 2chmbr ldls pm cmpl0Check 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.