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94669 Mechanical chest wall oscill

What 94669 is

CMS fee schedule short descriptor: Mechanical chest wall oscill.

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 94669 (CY2026)

Work RVUPractice expense RVUMalpractice RVUTotalMedicare rate
Non-facility (office)0.000.750.020.77$25.72
Facility (hospital, ASC)0.000.750.020.77$25.72

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 94669 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: CMS Workgroup. Units above the cap are denied unless the edit's adjudication rules allow an appeal with documentation.

Billed with 94669? These codes are bundled into it

94669 is a Column 1 code in 41 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
00520Anes closed chest px nos0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
36591Draw blood off venous device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
36592Collect blood from picc0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
94667Mnpj chest wall 1st1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
94668Mnpj chest wall sbsq1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
96523Irrig drug delivery device0 - no modifier bypassCheck pair
97124Massage therapy1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99202Office o/p new sf 15 min1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99203Office o/p new low 30 min1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99204Office o/p new mod 45 min1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99205Office o/p new hi 60 min1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99211Off/op est may x req phy/qhp1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99212Office o/p est sf 10 min1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99213Office o/p est low 20 min1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99214Office o/p est mod 30 min1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99215Office o/p est hi 40 min1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99281Emr dpt vst mayx req phy/qhp1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99282Emergency dept visit sf mdm1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99283Emergency dept visit low mdm1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99284Emergency dept visit mod mdm1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99285Emergency dept visit hi mdm1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
993041st nf care sf/low mdm 251 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
993051st nf care moderate mdm 351 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
993061st nf care high mdm 501 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99307Sbsq nf care sf mdm 101 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99308Sbsq nf care low mdm 201 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99309Sbsq nf care moderate mdm 301 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99310Sbsq nf care high mdm 451 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99315Nf dschrg mgmt 30 min/less1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair
99316Nf dschrg mgmt 30 min+1 - modifier may bypassCheck pair

Showing 30 of 41 column 2 codes. Use the pair checker for any specific combination.

94669 is bundled into these codes

94669 appears as a Column 2 code in 2 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, 94669 is the code that denies.

Column 1 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
G0238Oth resp proc, indiv0Check pair
G0239Oth resp proc, group0Check 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.