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84591 Assay of nos vitamin

What 84591 is

CMS fee schedule short descriptor: Assay of nos vitamin.

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 84591 (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 84591 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: Clinical: Data. Units above the cap are denied unless the edit's adjudication rules allow an appeal with documentation.

Billed with 84591? These codes are bundled into it

84591 is a Column 1 code in 1 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
96523Irrig drug delivery device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair

84591 is bundled into these codes

84591 appears as a Column 2 code in 11 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 84591 is the code that denies.

Column 1 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
0038U1Check pair
82180Assay of ascorbic acid1Check pair
82306Vitamin d 25 hydroxy1Check pair
82607Vitamin b-121Check pair
82652Vit d 1 25-dihydroxy1Check pair
84207Assay of vitamin b-61Check pair
84252Assay of vitamin b-21Check pair
84425Assay of vitamin b-11Check pair
84446Assay of vitamin e1Check pair
84590Assay of vitamin a1Check pair
84597Assay of vitamin k1Check 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.