A4322: Irrigation syringe, bulb or piston, each
A4322 is a HCPCS Level II code for irrigation syringe, bulb or piston, each. It belongs to the Transportation, Medical & Surgical Supplies, Administrative section. Whether Medicare pays it depends on the coverage rule below.
Medicare coverage: Special coverage instructions apply
There are published conditions attached to this code. Check the applicable coverage policy before billing it: the code being valid is not the same as the service being covered.
From the coverage field of the CMS Alpha-Numeric HCPCS File, release 2026Q4-Oct. This states Medicare’s position on the code, not on your particular claim.
Physician fee schedule statusP
Bundled or excluded. No RVUs and no payment: either bundled into another service or paid under a different provision of the Act.
Global period: XXX
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Medically Unlikely Edits: units per day
The most units of A4322 Medicare will pay on one date of service. Bill more on a single line and it is denied. The limit is not the same in every setting, so the row that matters is the one matching the claim you are building.
- practitioner
- 0, never payable MAI 3: Date of Service Edit: Clinical · CMS Policy
- outpatient
- 2 units MAI 3: Date of Service Edit: Clinical · Clinical: Data
- DME supplier
- 12 units MAI 3: Date of Service Edit: Clinical · Clinical: Data
The adjudication indicator decides whether exceeding the limit is worth appealing at all: MAI 1 is a line edit you can support with documentation, MAI 3 is a date-of-service edit that is also appealable, and MAI 2 is absolute, no documentation overrides it. CMS MUE 2026Q4.
The CMS record for A4322
- Long descriptor
- Irrigation syringe, bulb or piston, each
- Short descriptor
- Irrigation syringe
- Added
- January 1, 1990
- BETOS
- D1F
- Pricing indicator
- 37: DMEPOS
The official wording. This is what the code means.
CMS's 28-character form, which is what shows up on a remittance advice.
When CMS introduced the code.
Berenson-Eggers Type of Service: CMS's own analytic grouping.
Ostomy, tracheostomy and urological supplies. Price subject to floors and ceilings.
Codes adjacent to A4322
HCPCS has no hierarchy: related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If A4322 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.
- A4312Insertion tray without drainage bag with indwelling catheter, foley type, two-way, all silicone
- A4313Insertion tray without drainage bag with indwelling catheter, foley type, three-way, for continuous irrigation
- A4314Insertion tray with drainage bag with indwelling catheter, foley type, two-way latex with coating (teflon, silicone, silicone elastomer or hydrophilic, etc.)
- A4315Insertion tray with drainage bag with indwelling catheter, foley type, two-way, all silicone
- A4316Insertion tray with drainage bag with indwelling catheter, foley type, three-way, for continuous irrigation
- A4318Female external urinary collection cup, with or without ring attachment, per day
- A4320Irrigation tray with bulb or piston syringe, any purpose
- A4321Therapeutic agent for urinary catheter irrigation
- A4326Male external catheter with integral collection chamber, any type, each
- A4327Female external urinary collection device; meatal cup, each
- A4328Female external urinary collection device; pouch, each
- A4330Perianal fecal collection pouch with adhesive, each
- A4331Extension drainage tubing, any type, any length, with connector/adaptor, for use with urinary leg bag or urostomy pouch, each
- A4332Lubricant, individual sterile packet, each
- A4333Urinary catheter anchoring device, adhesive skin attachment, each
- A4334Urinary catheter anchoring device, leg strap, each