CPT code 82382: Urine catecholamines, total level2026 Medicare lab fee · Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule
Measures total catecholamines in urine for evaluation of suspected catecholamine excess, including possible pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma.
Medicare pays $27.30 for 82382 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
$27.30
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.
On this page 8 sections
What 82382 covers
This laboratory test measures total catecholamines in a urine specimen. Clinicians may order it when evaluating signs or findings suggesting excess catecholamine production, including suspected pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma. The urine collection may be timed, commonly over 24 hours. Endocrinologists and other clinicians may order the test during evaluation of suspected catecholamine-secreting tumors.
Report this code for the total urine catecholamine assay, not separately for each catecholamine constituent. It differs from catecholamine testing in blood and from an assay of three catecholamines. Medicare pays the test through the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule (CLFS) only. The 2026 national CLFS amount is $27.30, unchanged from 2020 through 2026. One amount applies across localities, without a geographic or office-versus-facility adjustment.
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 82382
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 82382. 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 82382 with status X (excluded by statute), so the test itself is paid only from the CLFS.
82382 on the lab fee schedule since 2020
82382 · CLFS 2026 Q4 (current)
$27.30
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.
82382 compared with similar tests
- 82383Blood catecholaminesBlood specimen$29.08
- 82382 is for total catecholamines in urine; 82383 is for catecholamines measured in blood.
- 82384Catecholamine assayThree analytes, fractionated$25.25
- 82382 identifies a total urine catecholamine assay. Use 82384 when the test performed is an assay of three catecholamines.
- 83835MetanephrinesCatecholamine metabolites$16.94
- 83835 measures metanephrines rather than catecholamines. Choose according to the analyte the laboratory measures and reports.
82382 billing questions
When should I report this code instead of 82383?
Use 82382 for total catecholamines measured in urine. Code 82383 is for catecholamines measured in blood.
How does this differ from 82384?
This code identifies a total urine catecholamine assay. Code 82384 identifies an assay of three catecholamines; choose the code that matches the test performed and reported.
Should I report a separate unit for each catecholamine?
No. Report the total urine catecholamine assay, not a separate unit for each constituent.
How does Medicare pay for this test?
Medicare pays it through the CLFS, using one national amount across localities with no geographic or office-versus-facility adjustment.
Is this test paid through the physician fee schedule?
No. The test is paid through the CLFS only.
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
Show the CMS file line behind this amount
Fee sheets · Coming soon
Put 82382 and the rest of your codes on one sheet
Your codes at your locality, with payer contracts beside Medicare.
Join the waitlist