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Official Description

Gel or gel-like pressure pad for mattress, standard mattress length and width
Short Descr Gel pressure mattress pad
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 4107.6
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 100-03, 4, 280.1
OTS Orthotic No
CCS Clinical Classification 243 - DME and supplies
KX Requirements specified in the medical policy have been met
NU New equipment
RR Rental (use the 'rr' modifier when dme is to be rented)
GA Waiver of liability statement issued as required by payer policy, individual case
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
KT Beneficiary resides in a competitive bidding area and travels outside that competitive bidding area and receives a competitive bid item
CR Catastrophe/disaster related
GW Service not related to the hospice patient's terminal condition
GZ Item or service expected to be denied as not reasonable and necessary
KJ Dmepos item, parenteral enteral nutrition (pen) pump or capped rental, months four to fifteen
RA Replacement of a dme, orthotic or prosthetic item
RB Replacement of a part of a dme, orthotic or prosthetic item furnished as part of a repair
Date
Action
Notes
1986-01-01 Added Code added 1/1/1986
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