CPT code 84060: Acid phosphatase, total enzyme activity2026 Medicare lab fee · Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule
CPT 84060 reports measurement of total acid phosphatase, distinct from the prostate-focused acid phosphatase assay reported with 84066.
Medicare pays $7.64 for 84060 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
$7.64
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 84060 covers
CPT 84060 identifies measurement of total acid phosphatase, an enzyme. The total result is distinct from a prostate-focused acid phosphatase assay, represented by 84066. Code selection turns on whether the reported test is for total acid phosphatase or specifically for prostate acid phosphatase. Alkaline phosphatase is a different enzyme; 84075 and 84080 identify alkaline phosphatase assays, not the total acid phosphatase measurement.
Medicare pays 84060 only through the CLFS. CMS sets one national amount for the code, which applies in every state and locality without a geographic adjustment or an office-versus-facility payment difference. The 2026 national CLFS amount is $7.64, unchanged from 2020 through 2025. The physician fee schedule excludes the test by statute, so Medicare payment for this test is through the CLFS rather than 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 84060
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 84060. 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 84060 with status X (excluded by statute), so the test itself is paid only from the CLFS.
84060 on the lab fee schedule since 2020
84060 · CLFS 2026 Q4 (current)
$7.64
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.
84060 compared with similar tests
- 84066Acid phosphataseProstatic form$9.66
- Choose 84066 for the prostate acid phosphatase assay; 84060 identifies total acid phosphatase measurement.
- 84075Alkaline phosphatase$5.18
- 84075 identifies an alkaline phosphatase assay, a different enzyme measurement from the total acid phosphatase reported with 84060.
- 84080Alkaline phosphataseIsoenzyme fractions$14.78
- 84080 identifies an alkaline phosphatase assay; 84060 identifies total acid phosphatase.
84060 billing questions
How does 84060 differ from 84066?
84060 identifies total acid phosphatase measurement. Code 84066 identifies the prostate acid phosphatase assay.
How does 84060 differ from 84075?
84075 is an alkaline phosphatase assay. Code 84060 is for total acid phosphatase.
Can modifier 26 be billed for 84060?
Medicare pays 84060 only through the CLFS; the code has no physician fee schedule payment.
Does Medicare payment vary by locality or setting?
No. The CLFS amount is national and applies across localities, with no office-versus-facility payment difference.
Which acid phosphatase test does 84060 identify?
It identifies measurement of total acid phosphatase, rather than the prostate acid phosphatase assay identified by 84066.
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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