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93150 Therapy activation ipnss

What 93150 is

CMS fee schedule short descriptor: Therapy activation ipnss.

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 93150 (CY2026)

Work RVUPractice expense RVUMalpractice RVUTotalMedicare rate
Non-facility (office)0.832.420.073.32$110.89
Facility (hospital, ASC)0.830.190.071.09$36.41

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 93150 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 93150? These codes are bundled into it

93150 is a Column 1 code in 9 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
35241Rpr blvsl vn grf ntrthrc w/b1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
35246Rpr blvsl vn grf ntrthrc w/o1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
35251Rpr blvsl vn grf intra-abdl1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
36591Draw blood off venous device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
36592Collect blood from picc0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
93151Interrog&prgrmg ipnss0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
93152Interrog&prgrmg ipnss polysm0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
93153Interrog w/o prgrmg ipnss0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
96523Irrig drug delivery device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair

93150 is bundled into these codes

93150 appears as a Column 2 code in 15 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 93150 is the code that denies.

Column 1 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
33276Insj phrnc nrv stim sys0Check pair
33277Insj phrnc nrv stim transvns0Check pair
33278Rmvl phrnc nrv stim sys0Check pair
33279Rmvl phrnc nrv stim transvns0Check pair
33280Rmvl phrnc nrv stim pg only0Check pair
33281Reposg phrnc nrv stim trnsvn0Check pair
35231Repair blvsl vn grf neck1Check pair
35236Repair blvsl vn grf uxtr1Check pair
35256Repair blvsl vn grf lxtr1Check pair
35261Rpr blvsl grf oth/thn vn nck1Check pair
35266Rpr blvsl grf oth/th vn uxtr1Check pair
35271Rpr blvs gr ot/th vn ntrth w1Check pair
35276Rpr blvs gr ot/t vn ntrth wo1Check pair
35281Rpr blvsl gr ot/th vn ntr-ab1Check pair
35286Rpr blvsl grf oth/th vn lxtr1Check 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.