A4613: Battery charger; replacement for patient-owned ventilator
A4613 is a HCPCS Level II code for battery charger; replacement for patient-owned ventilator. It belongs to the Transportation, Medical & Surgical Supplies, Administrative section. Medicare does not pay it: see the coverage note below before you bill it.
Medicare coverage: Non-covered by statute
Excluded from coverage by the Social Security Act itself, not by a policy decision. No documentation and no appeal changes this one: an ABN is the relevant conversation.
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 statusN
Non-covered service. Medicare does not cover it.
Global period: XXX
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Medically Unlikely Edits: units per day
The most units of A4613 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
- 0, never payable MAI 3: Date of Service Edit: Clinical · CMS Policy
- DME supplier
- 1 unit 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 A4613
- Long descriptor
- Battery charger; replacement for patient-owned ventilator
- Short descriptor
- Battery charger
- Added
- January 1, 1990
- BETOS
- D1E
- Pricing indicator
- 00: Not priced by Part B
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.
Service not separately priced by Part B, not covered, bundled into another service, or used by Part A only.
Codes adjacent to A4613
HCPCS has no hierarchy: related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If A4613 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.
- A4601Lithium ion battery, rechargeable, for non-prosthetic use, replacement
- A4602Replacement battery for external infusion pump owned by patient, lithium, 1.5 volt, each
- A4604Tubing with integrated heating element for use with positive airway pressure device
- A4605Tracheal suction catheter, closed system, each
- A4606Oxygen probe for use with oximeter device, replacement
- A4608Transtracheal oxygen catheter, each
- A4611Battery, heavy duty; replacement for patient owned ventilator
- A4612Battery cables; replacement for patient-owned ventilator
- A4614Peak expiratory flow rate meter, hand held
- A4615Cannula, nasal
- A4616Tubing (oxygen), per foot
- A4617Mouth piece
- A4618Breathing circuits
- A4619Face tent
- A4620Variable concentration mask
- A4623Tracheostomy, inner cannula