CPT code 89330: Sperm penetration, cervical mucus evaluation2026 Medicare lab fee · Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule
This fertility laboratory test evaluates sperm penetration through cervical mucus and is reported when clinicians assess sperm–mucus interaction.
Medicare pays $10.38 for 89330 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
$10.38
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 89330 covers
This reproductive laboratory test evaluates sperm penetration through cervical mucus, assessing sperm–mucus interaction during fertility evaluation. The procedure may also include assessment of mucus stretchability (spinnbarkeit). It differs from routine semen analysis, which reports semen characteristics such as volume, count, or motility. Clinicians evaluating infertility may order the test, and reproductive laboratories report the result. The code describes the penetration evaluation, not a general semen analysis or a postcoital test.
Report 89330 for the cervical-mucus penetration evaluation. Medicare pays the test only through the CLFS. The 2026 national CLFS amount is $10.38 and has remained unchanged from 2020 through 2026; the same national amount applies across localities and settings. The code is excluded from the physician fee schedule by statute.
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 89330
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 89330. 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 89330 with status X (excluded by statute), so the test itself is paid only from the CLFS.
89330 on the lab fee schedule since 2020
89330 · CLFS 2026 Q4 (current)
$10.38
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.
89330 compared with similar tests
- 89300Semen analysisIncludes postcoital testing$9.84
- Code 89300 includes semen analysis with a Huhner, or postcoital, test. Use 89330 for the cervical-mucus penetration evaluation.
- 89329Hamster penetrationSperm function assay$19.59
- Code 89329 evaluates sperm penetration using hamster ova; 89330 evaluates penetration through cervical mucus.
- 89320Semen analysisVolume, count, motility, differential$12.31
- Code 89320 evaluates semen volume, count, and motility. Code 89330 focuses on sperm penetration through cervical mucus.
89330 billing questions
How does this differ from the postcoital test?
Code 89300 describes semen analysis with a Huhner, or postcoital, test. Code 89330 is for sperm evaluation through cervical mucus.
Is this the same as a routine semen analysis?
No. This test evaluates sperm penetration through cervical mucus; codes such as 89310 and 89320 describe semen-analysis services.
Can the test include assessment of mucus stretchability?
Yes. The evaluation may include assessment of mucus stretchability, also called spinnbarkeit.
How does Medicare pay for this test?
Medicare pays it through the CLFS. The national amount applies across localities and does not vary between office and facility settings.
Can a physician interpretation be billed separately?
Medicare pays this test through the CLFS only; it is excluded from the physician fee schedule by statute.
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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