HCPCS code E0197: Air pressure pad for mattress billing guide
HCPCS code E0197 is a Level II HCPCS code maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Its official descriptor is: Air pressure pad for mattress, standard mattress length and width. It belongs to the E-series Durable Medical Equipment (DME) range. Suppliers use it to bill for non-powered, air-filled pressure pads placed on […]
HCPCS code A4870: Plumbing and electrical work for home hemodialysis
HCPCS code A4870 sits within HCPCS Level II. This coding system, maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), captures products, supplies, and services not covered by standard CPT codes. Where CPT codes primarily describe physician procedures, HCPCS Level II codes cover DME, prosthetics, orthotics, and associated supplies billed outside the clinical setting. […]
HCPCS code A4774: Ammonia test strips for dialysis, per 50
HCPCS code A4774 is a billable Level II supply code for ammonia test strips used in dialysis, billed per 50 strips per claim line. Dialysis facilities and DME suppliers use it to document water-quality monitoring supplies on a Medicare claim. The trouble starts when billers confuse it with the glucose or clotting-tube codes sitting right […]
HCPCS code A4750: Blood tubing for hemodialysis billing
HCPCS code A4750 covers blood tubing, arterial or venous, for hemodialysis, billed once per tube set. The definition is simple. The billing rule that sits behind it is not. Whether A4750 can go on a claim at all depends on where the patient dialyzes. In-facility hemodialysis bundles the tubing into a single ESRD payment, so […]
HCPCS code A4726: Dialysis supply billing and Medicare coverage
HCPCS code A4726 covers dialysate solution used in home peritoneal dialysis (PD), a home-based alternative to in-facility hemodialysis. It sits on Medicare’s ESRD Prospective Payment System (PPS) Consolidated Billing list, so it’s bundled rather than paid on its own. Billing teams often expect a separate allowed amount, the way a typical DME supply code pays […]
HCPCS Code E0117: Spring-assisted crutch billing guide [year]
HCPCS Code E0117 describes a crutch, underarm, articulating, spring assisted, billed per unit as each. Traditional Medicare Part B denies this code outright, and no amount of documentation changes that outcome. The bigger risk lies in what happens next: billing E0117 to Medicare anyway, or confusing it with E0114 or E0116. Those are the two […]
HCPCS Code C1894: Introducer/sheath, non-laser billing guide
HCPCS Code C1894 is a facility device code for an introducer/sheath that is not guiding, not intracardiac electrophysiological, and not laser. Precise attribute matching drives every HCPCS device code, and any mismatch against those three exclusions triggers a claim rejection. This reference covers the full description, OPPS classification, fee schedule data, valid modifiers, and documentation […]
HCPCS code A4706: Bicarbonate concentrate for hemodialysis
HCPCS code A4706 covers bicarbonate concentrate solution for hemodialysis, billed per gallon. It sits right next to a run of similarly worded peritoneal dialysis codes that billers often confuse it with. That mix-up matters less than a second detail. A4706 appears on CMS’s ESRD PPS consolidated billing list, so the dialysis facility bills for it, […]
HCPCS Code E0158: Leg extensions for walker, per set of four
Walker leg extensions get denied more often than they should, and almost always for the same reason. The claim is missing documentation proving the patient genuinely cannot use a standard-height walker. HCPCS Code E0158 covers leg extensions for a walker, per set of four (4), as a Medicare Part B durable medical equipment (DME) benefit. […]
HCPCS Code E0144: Enclosed walker with rear seat billing guide
HCPCS Code E0144 is a Level II HCPCS code for an enclosed, four-sided walker with wheels and a posterior seat. It may be rigid or folding. Medicare Part B covers it as durable medical equipment (DME) when a documented mobility limitation meets CMS’s coverage criteria. Modifier KX then confirms that documentation is on file. Selecting […]