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92611 Motion fluoroscopy/swallow

What 92611 is

CMS fee schedule short descriptor: Motion fluoroscopy/swallow.

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 92611 (CY2026)

Work RVUPractice expense RVUMalpractice RVUTotalMedicare rate
Non-facility (office)1.311.380.052.74$91.52
Facility (hospital, ASC)1.311.380.052.74$91.52

National rates: total RVUs x the CY2026 conversion factor of 33.4009 (non-QP), before geographic adjustment. Actual Medicare payment is 80% of the rate shown after the deductible; the patient or secondary payer owes the 20% coinsurance.


Status: Active - payable under the Physician Fee Schedule. Global period: Global concept does not apply.

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Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE)

Medicare caps 92611 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: Nature of Service/Procedure. Units above the cap are denied unless the edit's adjudication rules allow an appeal with documentation.

Billed with 92611? These codes are bundled into it

92611 is a Column 1 code in 11 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
36591Draw blood off venous device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
36592Collect blood from picc0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
69705Nps surg dilat eust tube uni1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
69706Nps surg dilat eust tube bi1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
70370Throat x-ray & fluoroscopy1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
70371Speech evaluation complex0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
76120Cine/video x-rays0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
76125Cine/video x-rays add-on0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
92511Nasopharyngoscopy1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
92610Evaluate swallowing function1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
96523Irrig drug delivery device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair

92611 is bundled into these codes

92611 appears as a Column 2 code in 6 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 92611 is the code that denies.

Column 1 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
92612Endoscopy swallow (fees) vid1Check pair
92613Endoscopy swallow (fees) i&r1Check pair
92614Laryngoscopic sensory vid1Check pair
92615Laryngoscopic sensory i&r1Check pair
92616Fees w/laryngeal sense test1Check pair
92617Fees w/laryngeal sense i&r1Check 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.