CPT code 44100: Bowel biopsy, percutaneous needle sampling2026 Medicare rate & RVUs in Delaware

In Delaware, Medicare pays $90.91 for 44100 in a facility. There’s no office rate.

Check a contract rate as a % of Medicare · 44100 nationwide

Medicare allowed amount for participating (non-QP) physicians, before deductible, coinsurance and claim adjustments. Not a patient’s bill or a hospital charge.

What 44100 covers

Code 44100 represents tissue sampling of bowel with a needle passed percutaneously through the abdominal wall. A physician uses it when a bowel target requires needle biopsy for diagnosis and the service is not an endoscopic mucosal biopsy or removal of an intestinal segment. It is a narrowly defined surgical procedure, typically performed by a procedural physician in a hospital or procedure setting; the specimen is sent for pathology.

Report it for the needle biopsy itself, with the procedure note identifying the target, percutaneous route, sampling technique, and tissue obtained. Do not substitute this code for colonoscopic biopsy or an excisional bowel procedure; those describe different access or extent. CMS assigns a 0-day global period, so same-day preoperative and postoperative care is included. When other procedures occur in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and remaining procedures are subject to the standard 50% multiple-procedure reduction. Modifier 50 is inappropriate. Assistant-at-surgery payment is barred, and co-surgeon and team-surgery billing are not permitted.

This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS physician fee schedule data and checked against the CMS billing rules shown here. Rates on this page come directly from CMS files.

How Delaware compares for 44100

Across 109 of 109 payment localities, the facility rate for 44100 runs from $85.43 in Arkansas to $122.34 in Alaska. Delaware pays $90.91. The RVUs are the same everywhere; the geographic indexes change the dollars.

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44100 rates by state

Office rate range in each state. Select a state to see its payment localities.

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How the 44100 rate is calculated

Each of 44100’s three RVUs is multiplied by a geographic index (GPCI) for the payment locality, added up, and multiplied by the conversion factor. Drag the indexes or enter a ZIP to see what moves the rate.

Payment rules and modifiers for 44100

The CMS indicators that decide how 44100 is paid alongside other services.

What modifiers do to the payment

When to use modifier 51

Codes related to 44100

Related codes aren’t interchangeable: bill the code that matches the service performed.

How 44100 has changed in Delaware

Price 44100 for an earlier date of service

Where the Delaware rate applies

Delaware is a Medicare payment area, not a city. Our Census mapping connects it to 79 cities and communities in Delaware. Some span more than one payment area; confirm with the service ZIP.

• Arden
• Ardencroft
• Ardentown
• Bear
• Bellefonte
• Bethany Beach
• Bethel
• Blades

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Where these rates come from

FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indexes and the conversion factor. Services without a published rate are labeled, never given a made-up amount. Amounts are Medicare allowed amounts before claim adjustments: not a patient’s bill or a commercial rate.

CMS RVU26D · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027

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