CPT procedure code

81281

Medicare payment

No national Medicare fee schedule we hold prices 81281. CMS fee schedules ↗

Code definition

Code

81281

Code system

CPT (Current Procedural Terminology)

This CPT code is not in our curated reference. CPT codes are maintained by the American Medical Association (AMA). Full descriptions require an AMA license.

Category

Short description sourced from CMS publicly available fee schedule data. Full CPT descriptions are copyright AMA. Not a substitute for the official CPT codebook.

Policy activity for CPT 81281

CLV Intelligence is tracking 1 policy change that cite CPT 81281 most recently on 2026-06-05, drawn from 1 proposed LCD. The changes span Oncology. 1 is flagged critical or high priority.

proposed LCD
1

Counts reflect the source documents CLV has matched to CPT 81281 to date; each links to the government publication that is authoritative. Monitored daily from CMS, the Federal Register, and Medicare Administrative Contractor publications.

Policy changes matched to 81281

Matched to this code by CLV analysis of each policy. The linked source document is authoritative.

Proposed LCD DL40144: MolDX: Biomarker Testing for Risk Stratification in DCIS — Noridian

Oncology · LCD-DL40144

Government source· CMS / MACverify ↗
High

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