C1750: Catheter, hemodialysis/peritoneal, long-term
C1750 is a HCPCS Level II code for catheter, hemodialysis/peritoneal, long-term. It belongs to the Outpatient Prospective Payment System 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.
Medically Unlikely Edits: units per day
The most units of C1750 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
- 2 units MAI 3: Date of Service Edit: Clinical · Clinical: CMS Workgroup
- outpatient
- 2 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 C1750
- Long descriptor
- Catheter, hemodialysis/peritoneal, long-term
- Short descriptor
- Cath, hemodialysis,long-term
- Added
- April 1, 2001
- BETOS
- D1A
- Pricing indicator
- 53: Other
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.
Statute.
Codes adjacent to C1750
HCPCS has no hierarchy: related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If C1750 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.
- C1739Tissue marker, uniquely detectable and identifiable with probe/sensor, any method (implantable), with delivery system
- C1740Leadless electrode, transmitter, battery (all implantable), for sequential left ventricular pacing
- C1741Anchor/screw for bone fixation, absorbable, metallic (implantable)
- C1742Pressure monitoring system, compartmental intramuscular (implantable), continuous, including all components (e.g., introducer, sensor), excludes mobile (wireless) software application
- C1743Scaffold, endovascular non-coronary, resorbable drug eluting, with delivery system (implantable)
- C1747Endoscope, single-use (i.e. disposable), urinary tract, imaging/illumination device (insertable)
- C1748Endoscope, single-use (i.e. disposable), upper gi, imaging/illumination device (insertable)
- C1749Endoscope, retrograde imaging/illumination colonoscope device (implantable)
- C1751Catheter, infusion, inserted peripherally, centrally or midline (other than hemodialysis)
- C1752Catheter, hemodialysis/peritoneal, short-term
- C1753Catheter, intravascular ultrasound
- C1754Catheter, intradiscal
- C1755Catheter, intraspinal
- C1756Catheter, pacing, transesophageal
- C1757Catheter, thrombectomy/embolectomy
- C1758Catheter, ureteral