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Try CasePilot| Short Descr | Oral device/appliance cusfab | Coverage | Carrier Priced | 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 | BETOS | D1E – Other DME | TOS Code(s) | P – Lump sum purchase of DME, prosthetics, orthotics | Added Date | 1/1/2006 | APC Status Indicator | Non-Implantable Durable Medical Equipment | MUE | 0 | MUE | 1 | OTS Orthotic | No | CCS Clinical Classification | 243 - DME and supplies |
| NU | New equipment | KX | Requirements specified in the medical policy have been met | GA | Waiver of liability statement issued as required by payer policy, individual case | 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. | BO | Orally administered nutrition, not by feeding tube | CC | Procedure code change (use 'cc' when the procedure code submitted was changed either for administrative reasons or because an incorrect code was filed) | 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 | KC | Replacement of special power wheelchair interface | KS | Glucose monitor supply for diabetic beneficiary not treated with insulin | 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 | 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 | UK | Services provided on behalf of the client to someone other than the client (collateral relationship) |
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