81420 Fetal chrmoml aneuploidy
What 81420 is
CMS fee schedule short descriptor: Fetal chrmoml aneuploidy.
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 81420 (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 81420 at 1 unit per date of service for practitioner claims (MAI 2 - date of service edit (absolute): units above the MUE never pay), rationale: Code Descriptor / CPT Instruction. Units above the cap are denied unless the edit's adjudication rules allow an appeal with documentation.
Billed with 81420? These codes are bundled into it
81420 is a Column 1 code in 312 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
0009U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0016U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0017U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0027U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0030U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0034U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0040U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0045U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0046U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0047U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0049U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0055U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0069U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0070U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0071U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0086U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0087U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0088U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0089U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0090U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0108U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0111U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0118U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0133U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0136U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0137U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0138U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0140U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0141U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair | |
0142U | 1 - modifier may bypass | Check pair |
Showing 30 of 312 column 2 codes. Use the pair checker for any specific combination.
81420 is bundled into these codes
81420 appears as a Column 2 code in 16 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 81420 is the code that denies.
| Column 1 code | Short description | Modifier indicator | |
|---|---|---|---|
0156U | 1 | Check pair | |
0212U | 1 | Check pair | |
0213U | 1 | Check pair | |
0318U | 1 | Check pair | |
0336U | 1 | Check pair | |
0411U | 1 | Check pair | |
0417U | 1 | Check pair | |
0419U | 1 | Check pair | |
0425U | 1 | Check pair | |
0431U | 1 | Check pair | |
0437U | 1 | Check pair | |
0454U | 1 | Check pair | |
0469U | 1 | Check pair | |
81228 | Cytog alys chrml abnr cgh | 1 | Check pair |
81229 | Cytog alys chrml abnr snpcgh | 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.