CPT code 83014: H pylori dose, for carbon-13 testing2026 Medicare lab fee · Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule
Reports administration of medication for Helicobacter pylori testing, separately from the carbon-13 breath or blood assay used to detect infection.
Medicare pays $7.86 for 83014 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
$7.86
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 83014 covers
83014 reports administration of the medication used in an H. pylori test. It is associated with carbon-13 testing: code 83013 identifies breath-test analysis, while 83009 identifies carbon-13 blood testing. The administration service is distinct from specimen analysis; report the applicable test-analysis code for that service as well.
Report 83014 for the administration service; it is not counted by breath specimens or test results. It is commonly reported with 83013 for carbon-13 breath testing and with 83009 for carbon-13 blood testing. Medicare pays 83014 only through the CLFS. The 2026 national CLFS amount is $7.86, unchanged since 2020; the same amount applies in every state and locality, without geographic or office/facility adjustment. It is excluded from the physician fee schedule.
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 83014
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 83014. 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 83014 with status X (excluded by statute), so the test itself is paid only from the CLFS.
83014 on the lab fee schedule since 2020
83014 · CLFS 2026 Q4 (current)
$7.86
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.
83014 compared with similar tests
- 83013H. pylori Breath TestCarbon-13 urease analysis$67.36
- 83013 reports analysis of the carbon-13 breath test. Use 83014 for the associated drug-administration service, not the analysis.
- 83009H pylori testC-13 blood analysis$67.36
- 83009 identifies carbon-13 H. pylori blood testing. Code 83014 reports the associated drug-administration service.
- 87338H. pylori antigenStool immunoassay$14.38
- 87338 detects H. pylori antigen in stool; it is a different testing method, not the carbon-13 drug-administration service.
83014 billing questions
Should 83014 be reported with 83013?
Yes, when the drug is administered for carbon-13 H. pylori breath testing. Code 83014 reports administration, and 83013 reports breath-test analysis.
Can 83014 be reported with 83009?
It may be reported with 83009 when the drug is administered for carbon-13 H. pylori blood testing.
Does 83014 report the breath-test result?
No. It reports drug administration; 83013 reports carbon-13 breath-test analysis.
How should units be counted?
Report the drug-administration service, not individual breath specimens or test results.
How does Medicare pay 83014?
Medicare pays it through the CLFS at one national amount across localities and settings. It is excluded from the physician fee schedule.
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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