CPT code 80076: Liver panel, seven liver chemistry tests2026 Medicare lab fee · Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule
A blood chemistry panel measuring seven liver-related analytes, reported when clinicians assess liver injury, disease, or changes in liver function.
Medicare pays $8.17 for 80076 under the 2026 Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule: one national amount, the same in every state and setting.
Medicare lab fee · CLFS 2026 Q4
National CLFS amount
$8.17
In effect since Jan 1, 2026. The same amount in every state, payment locality and setting.
- Geographic adjustment
- None
- Office vs facility
- Same
- Since 2020
- Unchanged
- CMS updates
- Quarterly
Medicare pays the lesser of the lab’s charge and this amount. Patients usually owe no Part B deductible or coinsurance for covered clinical lab tests.
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What 80076 covers
The hepatic function panel combines measurements of albumin, total and direct bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, total protein, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) from a blood specimen. Clinicians use the results to assess liver-related abnormalities and monitor patients with known or suspected liver disease. Hospital and independent laboratories perform the tests for ordering clinicians in office, outpatient, and facility settings.
Report 80076 for the completed panel rather than separately reporting its included tests as duplicate services. One unit represents one panel. Medicare pays the test through the CLFS, with one national amount across states and localities and no office-versus-facility difference. The 2026 national CLFS amount is $8.17, unchanged from 2020 through 2025. The test is excluded from the physician fee schedule by statute and is paid only through the CLFS.
This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule data. Amounts on this page come directly from CMS files.
How Medicare pays 80076
Clinical lab tests aren’t priced like physician services. They’re paid from their own fee schedule, with its own rules. See the whole lab fee schedule.
One national amount
CMS sets a single Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule amount for 80076. There’s no geographic (GPCI) adjustment, so it pays the same in every state and payment locality.
No office or facility rate
Lab tests aren’t built from relative value units, so there’s no office and facility split: the place of service doesn’t change the CLFS amount.
Updated every quarter
CMS republishes the CLFS each quarter. New tests, often proprietary laboratory analyses (PLA codes), join during the year; existing amounts are updated each January.
Excluded from the physician fee schedule
The physician fee schedule lists 80076 with status X (excluded by statute), so the test itself is paid only from the CLFS.
80076 on the lab fee schedule since 2020
80076 · CLFS 2026 Q4 (current)
$8.17
Unchanged since Jan 1, 2020
27 quarterly CLFS releases on file, first CLFS 2020 Q1. A code missing from a quarter wasn’t on that release.
80076 compared with similar tests
- 80053Metabolic panelFourteen blood chemistry tests$10.56
- 80053 is a broader metabolic chemistry panel. Choose 80076 when the ordered panel is specifically the seven-test hepatic profile.
- 80050General health panelFour-test combinationNo national amount
- 80050 is a general health panel with a broader screening purpose; 80076 is focused on liver-related chemistry.
- 80074Hepatitis panelFour viral markers$47.63
- 80074 tests for acute viral hepatitis. 80076 measures liver-related chemistry and does not identify hepatitis viruses.
- 80069Renal panelKidney-focused chemistry panel$8.68
- 80069 is a renal function panel for kidney-related chemistry; 80076 is the liver-focused panel.
80076 billing questions
When should 80076 be selected instead of a comprehensive metabolic panel?
Use 80076 when the ordered service is the seven-test hepatic panel. The comprehensive metabolic panel is a broader chemistry panel for a wider metabolic assessment.
Can the included tests also be billed separately?
When all seven panel tests are performed and reported as 80076, do not separately report those same tests as duplicate services.
How many units should be reported?
Report one unit for one completed hepatic function panel.
What specimen does the panel use?
The panel is performed on a blood specimen.
How does Medicare pay for 80076?
Medicare pays 80076 under the CLFS at one national amount that applies across localities and in office and facility settings.
Where this amount comes from
FeeBase reads lab amounts directly from the CMS Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule file for the quarter: one row per code, with its payment indicator and national amount. Contractor-priced tests are labeled, never given a made-up amount. Amounts are Medicare payment limits, not a patient’s bill or a commercial rate.
CMS CLFS 2026 Q4 · effective Oct 1, 2026 through the day before Jan 1, 2027
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