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Official Description

Continuous positive airway pressure (cpap) device
Short Descr Cont airway pressure device
Coverage Special coverage instructions apply
Pricing Indicator(s) 36 – Supplies And Surgical Dressings - Capped rental DME (price subject to floors and ceilings)
MPI A – Not applicable, as HCPCS priced under one methodology
CIM 60-17
BETOS D1E – Other DME
TOS Code(s) R – Rental of DME
Added Date 1/1/1988
APC Status Indicator Non-Implantable Durable Medical Equipment
MUE 0
MUE 1
IOM 100-03, 4, 240.2
OTS Orthotic No
CCS Clinical Classification 243 - DME and supplies
RR Rental (use the 'rr' modifier when dme is to be rented)
KJ Dmepos item, parenteral enteral nutrition (pen) pump or capped rental, months four to fifteen
KI Dmepos item, second or third month rental
KH Dmepos item, initial claim, purchase or first month rental
KX Requirements specified in the medical policy have been met
RA Replacement of a dme, orthotic or prosthetic item
GZ Item or service expected to be denied as not reasonable and necessary
MS Six month maintenance and servicing fee for reasonable and necessary parts and labor which are not covered under any manufacturer or supplier warranty
NU New equipment
BP The beneficiary has been informed of the purchase and rental options and has elected to purchase the item
BU The beneficiary has been informed of the purchase and rental options and after 30 days has not informed the supplier of his/her decision
CC Procedure code change (use 'cc' when the procedure code submitted was changed either for administrative reasons or because an incorrect code was filed)
CR Catastrophe/disaster related
EY No physician or other licensed health care provider order for this item or service
GA Waiver of liability statement issued as required by payer policy, individual case
GW Service not related to the hospice patient's terminal condition
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
K1 Lower extremity prosthesis functional level 1 - has the ability or potential to use a prosthesis for transfers or ambulation on level surfaces at fixed cadence. typical of the limited and unlimited household ambulator.
KL Dmepos item delivered via mail
KR Rental item, billing for partial month
KT Beneficiary resides in a competitive bidding area and travels outside that competitive bidding area and receives a competitive bid item
KY Dmepos item subject to dmepos competitive bidding program number 5
N1 Group 1 oxygen coverage criteria met
UE Used durable medical equipment
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2014-01-01 Changed Description Changed
1988-01-01 Added Code added 1/1/1988
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