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Official Description

Crutches, forearm, includes crutches of various materials, adjustable or fixed, pair, complete with tips and handgrips
Short Descr Crutch forearm pair
Coverage Special coverage instructions apply
Pricing Indicator(s) 32 – Supplies And Surgical Dressings - Inexpensive & routinely purchased DME (price subject to floors and ceilings)
MPI A – Not applicable, as HCPCS priced under one methodology
CIM 60-9
MCM 2100.1
BETOS D1E – Other DME
TOS Code(s) A – Used durable medical equipment (DME)
Added Date 1/1/1986
APC Status Indicator Non-Implantable Durable Medical Equipment
MUE 0
MUE 1
IOM 100-02, 15, 110.1
OTS Orthotic No
CCS Clinical Classification 243 - DME and supplies
NU New equipment
KX Requirements specified in the medical policy have been met
CR Catastrophe/disaster related
GA Waiver of liability statement issued as required by payer policy, individual case
GC This service has been performed in part by a resident under the direction of a teaching physician
GX Notice of liability issued, voluntary under payer policy
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
GZ Item or service expected to be denied as not reasonable and necessary
KT Beneficiary resides in a competitive bidding area and travels outside that competitive bidding area and receives a competitive bid item
KV Dmepos item subject to dmepos competitive bidding program that is furnished as part of a professional service
LT Left side (used to identify procedures performed on the left side of the body)
PO Excepted service provided at an off-campus, outpatient, provider-based department of a hospital
RA Replacement of a dme, orthotic or prosthetic item
RR Rental (use the 'rr' modifier when dme is to be rented)
RT Right side (used to identify procedures performed on the right side of the body)
Date
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1986-01-01 Added Code added 1/1/1986
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