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87807 Rsv assay w/optic

What 87807 is

CMS fee schedule short descriptor: Rsv assay w/optic.

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 87807 (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 87807 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 87807? These codes are bundled into it

87807 is a Column 1 code in 7 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
80503Path clin consltj sf 5-201 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
80504Path clin consltj mod 21-401 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
80505Path clin consltj high 41-601 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
80506Path clin consltj prolng svc1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
87280Respiratory syncytial ag if1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
87420Resp syncytial virus ag ia1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
96523Irrig drug delivery device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair

87807 is bundled into these codes

87807 appears as a Column 2 code in 14 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 87807 is the code that denies.

Column 1 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
0115U1Check pair
0202U1Check pair
0225U1Check pair
0442U1Check pair
0528U1Check pair
87147Culture type immunologic1Check pair
87631Resp virus 3-5 targets1Check pair
87632Resp virus 6-11 targets1Check pair
87633Resp virus 12-25 targets1Check pair
87634Rsv dna/rna amp probe0Check pair
87637Sarscov2&inf a&b&rsv amp prb0Check pair
87797Detect agent nos dna dir1Check pair
87798Detect agent nos dna amp1Check pair
87799Detect agent nos dna quant1Check 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.