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87107 Fungi identification mold

What 87107 is

CMS fee schedule short descriptor: Fungi identification mold.

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 87107 (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 87107 at 4 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 87107? These codes are bundled into it

87107 is a Column 1 code in 2 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
88387Macroscopic xm dsj&prep tiss1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
96523Irrig drug delivery device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair

87107 is bundled into these codes

87107 appears as a Column 2 code in 9 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 87107 is the code that denies.

Column 1 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
0140U1Check pair
0142U1Check pair
0321U1Check pair
0441U1Check pair
0480U1Check pair
0483U1Check pair
0484U1Check pair
0504U1Check pair
87106Fungi identification yeast1Check 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.