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Official Description

Crutches underarm, other than wood, adjustable or fixed, pair, with pads, tips and handgrips
Short Descr Crutch underarm pair no wood
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
GZ Item or service expected to be denied as not reasonable and necessary
LT Left side (used to identify procedures performed on the left side of the body)
GA Waiver of liability statement issued as required by payer policy, individual case
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)
CR Catastrophe/disaster related
PN Non-excepted service provided at an off-campus, outpatient, provider-based department of a hospital
58 Staged or related procedure or service by the same physician or other qualified health care professional during the postoperative period: it may be necessary to indicate that the performance of a procedure or service during the postoperative period was: (a) planned or anticipated (staged); (b) more extensive than the original procedure; or (c) for therapy following a surgical procedure. this circumstance may be reported by adding modifier 58 to the staged or related procedure. note: for treatment of a problem that requires a return to the operating/procedure room (eg, unanticipated clinical condition), see modifier 78.
AQ Physician providing a service in an unlisted health professional shortage area (hpsa)
CC Procedure code change (use 'cc' when the procedure code submitted was changed either for administrative reasons or because an incorrect code was filed)
ET Emergency services
EY No physician or other licensed health care provider order for this item or service
GC This service has been performed in part by a resident under the direction of a teaching physician
GP Services delivered under an outpatient physical therapy plan of care
GV Attending physician not employed or paid under arrangement by the patient's hospice provider
GW Service not related to the hospice patient's terminal condition
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
KJ Dmepos item, parenteral enteral nutrition (pen) pump or capped rental, months four to fifteen
KS Glucose monitor supply for diabetic beneficiary not treated with insulin
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
PO Excepted service provided at an off-campus, outpatient, provider-based department of a hospital
Q6 Service furnished under a fee-for-time compensation arrangement by a substitute physician or by a substitute physical therapist furnishing outpatient physical therapy services in a health professional shortage area, a medically underserved area, or a rural area
RA Replacement of a dme, orthotic or prosthetic item
ST Related to trauma or injury
TC Technical component; under certain circumstances, a charge may be made for the technical component alone; under those circumstances the technical component charge is identified by adding modifier 'tc' to the usual procedure number; technical component charges are institutional charges and not billed separately by physicians; however, portable x-ray suppliers only bill for technical component and should utilize modifier tc; the charge data from portable x-ray suppliers will then be used to build customary and prevailing profiles
UE Used durable medical equipment
XS Separate structure, a service that is distinct because it was performed on a separate organ/structure
XU Unusual non-overlapping service, the use of a service that is distinct because it does not overlap usual components of the main service
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1986-01-01 Added Code added 1/1/1986
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