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P9615 Urine specimen collect mult

What P9615 is

Catheterization for collection of specimen(s) (multiple patients)

HCPCS Level II long description, CMS October 2026 file. See the P codes page for the full section.

Medicare payment for P9615 (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 P9615 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: Code Descriptor / CPT Instruction. Units above the cap are denied unless the edit's adjudication rules allow an appeal with documentation.

P9615 is bundled into these codes

P9615 appears as a Column 2 code in 4 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, P9615 is the code that denies.

Column 1 codeShort descriptionModifier indicator
51701Insert bladder catheter0Check pair
G0162Hhc rn e&m plan svs, 15 min1Check pair
G0471Ven blood coll snf/hha0Check pair
P9612Catheterize for urine spec0Check 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.