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83014 H pylori drug admin

What 83014 is

CMS fee schedule short descriptor: H pylori drug admin.

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 83014 (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.

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Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE)

Medicare caps 83014 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 83014? These codes are bundled into it

83014 is a Column 1 code in 4 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
78267Urea breath tst c-14 acquisj1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
83520Immunoassay quant nos nonab1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
83789Mass spectrometry qual/quan1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
96523Irrig drug delivery device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair

83014 is bundled into these codes

83014 appears as a Column 2 code in 1 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 83014 is the code that denies.

Column 1 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
78268Urea breath test c-14 alys1Check 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.