No office rate
50390 addresses percutaneous aspiration or injection of a renal cyst or pelvis. It is not the pressure-measurement service reported with 50396.
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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01
50396 Kidney pressure test Medicare reimbursement rates in Georgia
Reports percutaneous measurement of pressure within the renal collecting system, typically during evaluation of suspected urinary outflow obstruction. Compare 50396 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Georgia.
Amounts below use the non-QP conversion factor for participating physicians. These are base physician payments before claim-level adjustments, not patient costs or total hospital charges.
What does Medicare pay for 50396 in Georgia?
Georgia has 2 payment localities in this comparison. Use the service location to choose the applicable amount. These are the supported base rates for the 2 payment areas shown below, using the same CMS release.
Office / nonfacility
No supported rate
Facility setting
$98.74–$102.16
2 of 2 localities have a supported rate.
These are locality ranges, not averages or address-specific quotes. A facility-setting amount covers the physician service; it does not include a hospital’s separate bill. Choose a locality below to inspect its calculation, compare other payment areas, or price a percentage of Medicare.
Urology
About 50396: Percutaneous intrarenal pressure measurement
Reports percutaneous measurement of pressure within the renal collecting system, typically during evaluation of suspected urinary outflow obstruction.
This service measures pressure within the kidney’s collecting system by introducing a needle and injecting fluid while pressure is assessed. Urologists and interventional radiologists may perform it during a diagnostic workup for suspected obstruction, such as when evaluating impaired drainage at the ureteropelvic junction. The procedure may include contrast injection, but the defining service is the pressure measurement rather than imaging alone.
Report the code when the documented service is an intrarenal pressure study, not simply renal-pelvis access, drainage, or a contrast study. The record should support the indication, percutaneous technique, pressure measurement, and any contrast used. CMS assigns a 0-day global period, so same-day preoperative and postoperative care is included. When multiple procedures are performed in the same session, the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and other procedures are subject to the standard 50% reduction. For bilateral performance, modifier 50 is paid at 150%. Assistant-at-surgery payment requires medical-necessity documentation; co-surgeons and team surgery are not permitted.
CMS billing rules for 50396
- Global period
- Minor procedure with a 0-day global period: same-day preoperative and postoperative care is included.
- Multiple procedures
- Standard multiple procedure reduction: the highest-valued procedure is paid in full and others at 50% when performed in the same session.
- Bilateral procedures
- Bilateral procedure with modifier 50 is paid at 150%.
- Assistant at surgery
- Assistant at surgery is paid only with documentation of medical necessity.
- Co-surgeons
- Co-surgeons not permitted.
- Team surgery
- Team surgery not permitted.
Where the value comes from
- Work RVU2.04 · 68%
- Practice expense (office) RVU0.76 · 25%
- Malpractice RVU0.20 · 7%
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This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS physician fee schedule data and checked against the CMS billing rules shown here. Rates on this page come directly from CMS files.
50396 compared with similar codes
Office rates for Georgia, from the same CMS release.
$122.81–$129.95
50391 reports therapeutic-agent instillation into the renal pelvis or ureter. Use 50396 for pressure measurement, not medication delivery.
Compare 50396 by payment locality
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2 of 2 payment localities
Atlanta →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$102.16
Rest Of Georgia →
Office / nonfacility
Unavailable
Facility
$98.74
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50396 billing questions
When should this be reported instead of a nephrostogram?
Report this code for a documented intrarenal pressure measurement. A nephrostogram evaluates the collecting system with contrast imaging; imaging alone does not represent a pressure study.
Does contrast injection by itself support this code?
No. Contrast may be used during the pressure study, but the service must include measurement of intrarenal pressure.
How is bilateral performance reported?
When the procedure is performed bilaterally, report modifier 50. CMS pays the bilateral procedure at 150% under the supplied payment rule.
How does the multiple-procedure reduction affect payment?
For procedures performed in the same session, CMS pays the highest-valued procedure in full and pays other procedures at 50%.
What care is included in the global period?
The 0-day global period includes same-day preoperative and postoperative care.
Can an assistant or co-surgeon be reported?
Assistant-at-surgery payment requires documentation of medical necessity. Co-surgeons and team surgery are not permitted under the supplied CMS rules.
Where these rates come from
FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense, and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indices and the applicable conversion factor. Unavailable or separately priced services are labeled rather than assigned a made-up amount.
Source: RVU26D. Effective 2026-10-01 through the day before 2027-01-01.
5,91150389,,Remove renal tube w/fluoro,A,,1.07,10.67,,0.18,,0.12,11.86,1.37,0,000,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,1,1,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,91250390,,Drainage of kidney lesion,A,,1.91,0.30,NA,0.30,,0.21,2.42,2.42,0,000,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,1,1,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,91350391,,Instll rx agnt into rnal tub,A,,1.91,1.66,,0.39,,0.24,3.81,2.54,0,000,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,1,1,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,91450396,,Measure kidney pressure,A,,2.04,0.76,NA,0.76,,0.20,3.00,3.00,0,000,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,1,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,91550400,,Revision of kidney/ureter,A,,20.74,7.52,NA,7.52,,2.67,30.93,30.93,0,090,0.08,0.83,0.09,2,1,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,91650405,,Revision of kidney/ureter,A,,25.21,8.78,NA,8.78,,3.24,37.23,37.23,0,090,0.08,0.83,0.09,2,1,2,1,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
5,91750430,,Njx px nfrosgrm &/urtrgrm,A,,2.83,15.30,,0.89,,0.34,18.47,4.06,0,000,0.00,0.00,0.00,2,1,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00