CPT code 82672: Estrogen test, total estrogen2026 Medicare lab fee · Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule
Laboratory assay of total estrogen, reported when the ordered test measures overall estrogen rather than separate estrogen fractions or an individually named estrogen.
Medicare pays $21.70 for 82672 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
$21.70
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 82672 covers
CPT 82672 represents laboratory analysis of total estrogen, producing an aggregate estrogen result rather than separate measurements of estrogen fractions. It is selected when the ordered test and laboratory result are for total estrogen, not an individually named analyte such as estradiol, estrone, or estriol. A clinical laboratory performs the assay, and the ordering clinician uses the result in the context of the clinical question and other findings.
Report 82672 for the total-estrogen assay performed. Use 82671 for fractionated estrogens, 82670 for total estradiol, 82679 for estrone, or 82677 for estriol when those are the assays performed. Medicare pays 82672 only under the CLFS. The 2026 national amount is $21.70, unchanged from 2020 through 2026; the same amount applies in every locality, with no geographic adjustment or office-versus-facility difference.
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 82672
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 82672. 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 82672 with status X (excluded by statute), so the test itself is paid only from the CLFS.
82672 on the lab fee schedule since 2020
82672 · CLFS 2026 Q4 (current)
$21.70
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.
82672 compared with similar tests
- 82671Estrogen testFractionated$32.30
- Use 82672 for total estrogen. Use 82671 when the laboratory measures and reports estrogen fractions separately.
- 82670EstradiolTotal estradiol$27.94
- 82670 is for total estradiol specifically; 82672 is for total estrogen.
- 82679EstroneEstrone-specific hormone assay$24.95
- 82679 is for estrone specifically. Choose 82672 when the test measures total estrogen instead.
- 82677EstriolEstriol hormone level$24.18
- 82677 is for estriol specifically. Choose 82672 when the test measures total estrogen instead.
82672 billing questions
How does 82672 differ from 82671?
82672 is for a total-estrogen result. 82671 is for fractionated estrogens measured separately.
When should 82670 be used instead?
Use 82670 when the assay measures total estradiol specifically. Use 82672 when the test measures total estrogen.
Can 82672 be used for an estrone or estriol result?
No. Use 82679 for an estrone assay and 82677 for an estriol assay.
How is Medicare payment determined for 82672?
Medicare pays 82672 under the CLFS at one national amount, regardless of locality or office-versus-facility setting.
What should the laboratory documentation support?
Documentation should support that the ordered and performed assay measures total estrogen. If it measures a specific estrogen or separately measured fractions, select the corresponding code.
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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