C Codes

Effective January 1, 2005, hospitals are required to use Medicare C-codes when billing for devices used in the outpatient setting. Requiring the use of C-codes to identify devices used in conjunction with procedures paid for under OPPS will greatly improve the quality of claims data Medicare uses to establish APC payments in the future. The full list of C-codes can be found on the CMS website

Medicare has established outpatient coding edits dictating which specific C-codes should be billed with which CPT procedure code. The list of coding edits is not all-inclusive and Medicare will add edits to the list on a quarterly basis in conjunction with the quarterly Outpatient Coding Editor (OCE) release. For more information on the C-code edits, go to: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The following is a list of c-codes, relevant to Abbott Vascular Coronary and peripheral products.

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 *Carotid artery stent implantation is an inpatient only procedure for Medicare coverage. The C-code is used primarily for internal charging to capture the cost of the embolic protection system.

References: HCPCS Release and Code Sets, 2008 Alpha-Numeric HCPCS Downloads accessed on April 2, 2008 from http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HCPCSReleaseCodeSets/ANHCPCS/list.asp

Last Updated: May 2008

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