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Try CasePilot| Short Descr | Straight tip urine catheter | Coverage | Special coverage instructions apply | Pricing Indicator(s) | 37 – Supplies And Surgical Dressings - Ostomy, tracheostomy and urological supplies (price subject to floors and ceilings) | MPI | A – Not applicable, as HCPCS priced under one methodology | MCM | 2130 | BETOS | D1F – Prosthetic/Orthotic devices | TOS Code(s) | P – Lump sum purchase of DME, prosthetics, orthotics | Added Date | 1/1/1990 | Status Code | Bundled/Excluded Code | Global Days | XXX - Global Concept Does Not Apply | PC/TC Indicator (26, TC) | 9 - Not Applicable | Multiple Procedures (51) | 9 - Concept does not apply. | Bilateral Surgery (50) | 9 - Concept does not apply. | Physician Supervisions | 09 - Concept does not apply. | Assistant Surgeon (80, 82) | 9 - Concept does not apply. | Co-Surgeons (62) | 9 - Concept does not apply. | Team Surgery (66) | 9 - Concept does not apply. | Diagnostic Imaging Family | 99 - Concept Does Not Apply | APC Status Indicator | Items and Services Packaged into APC Rates | MUE | 0 | MUE | 600 | IOM | 100-02, 15, 120 | OTS Orthotic | No | CCS Clinical Classification | 243 - DME and supplies |
| KX | Requirements specified in the medical policy have been met | GL | Medically unnecessary upgrade provided instead of non-upgraded item, no charge, no advance beneficiary notice (abn) | CR | Catastrophe/disaster related | GA | Waiver of liability statement issued as required by payer policy, individual case | CC | Procedure code change (use 'cc' when the procedure code submitted was changed either for administrative reasons or because an incorrect code was filed) | GZ | Item or service expected to be denied as not reasonable and necessary | GW | Service not related to the hospice patient's terminal condition | EY | No physician or other licensed health care provider order for this item or service | GY | Item or service statutorily excluded, does not meet the definition of any medicare benefit or, for non-medicare insurers, is not a contract benefit | 76 | Repeat procedure or service by same physician or other qualified health care professional: it may be necessary to indicate that a procedure or service was repeated by the same physician or other qualified health care professional subsequent to the original procedure or service. this circumstance may be reported by adding modifier 76 to the repeated procedure or service. note: this modifier should not be appended to an e/m service. | GK | Reasonable and necessary item/service associated with a ga or gz modifier | 25 | Significant, separately identifiable evaluation and management service by the same physician or other qualified health care professional on the same day of the procedure or other service: it may be necessary to indicate that on the day a procedure or service identified by a cpt code was performed, the patient's condition required a significant, separately identifiable e/m service above and beyond the other service provided or beyond the usual preoperative and postoperative care associated with the procedure that was performed. a significant, separately identifiable e/m service is defined or substantiated by documentation that satisfies the relevant criteria for the respective e/m service to be reported (see evaluation and management services guidelines for instructions on determining level of e/m service). the e/m service may be prompted by the symptom or condition for which the procedure and/or service was provided. as such, different diagnoses are not required for reporting of the e/m services on the same date. this circumstance may be reported by adding modifier 25 to the appropriate level of e/m service. note: this modifier is not used to report an e/m service that resulted in a decision to perform surgery. see modifier 57 for significant, separately identifiable non-e/m services, see modifier 59. | 59 | Distinct procedural service: under certain circumstances, it may be necessary to indicate that a procedure or service was distinct or independent from other non-e/m services performed on the same day. modifier 59 is used to identify procedures/services, other than e/m services, that are not normally reported together, but are appropriate under the circumstances. documentation must support a different session, different procedure or surgery, different site or organ system, separate incision/excision, separate lesion, or separate injury (or area of injury in extensive injuries) not ordinarily encountered or performed on the same day by the same individual. however, when another already established modifier is appropriate it should be used rather than modifier 59. only if no more descriptive modifier is available, and the use of modifier 59 best explains the circumstances, should modifier 59 be used. note: modifier 59 should not be appended to an e/m service. to report a separate and distinct e/m service with a non-e/m service performed on the same date, see modifier 25. | A1 | Dressing for one wound | AI | Principal physician of record | CG | Policy criteria applied | GC | This service has been performed in part by a resident under the direction of a teaching physician | KT | Beneficiary resides in a competitive bidding area and travels outside that competitive bidding area and receives a competitive bid item | NU | New equipment | RA | Replacement of a dme, orthotic or prosthetic item |
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| 1990-01-01 | Added | Code added 1/1/1990 |
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