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C1760

C1760: Closure device, vascular (implantable/insertable)

HCPCSActiveBETOS D1A

C1760 is a HCPCS Level II code for closure device, vascular (implantable/insertable). 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 C1760 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
4 units
MAI 3: Date of Service Edit: Clinical · Clinical: CMS Workgroup
outpatient
4 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 C1760

Long descriptor
Closure device, vascular (implantable/insertable)

The official wording. This is what the code means.

Short descriptor
Closure dev, vasc

CMS's 28-character form, which is what shows up on a remittance advice.

Added
April 1, 2001

When CMS introduced the code.

BETOS
D1A

Berenson-Eggers Type of Service: CMS's own analytic grouping.

Pricing indicator
53: Other

Statute.

Codes adjacent to C1760

HCPCS has no hierarchy: related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If C1760 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.

  • C1752Catheter, hemodialysis/peritoneal, short-term
  • C1753Catheter, intravascular ultrasound
  • C1754Catheter, intradiscal
  • C1755Catheter, intraspinal
  • C1756Catheter, pacing, transesophageal
  • C1757Catheter, thrombectomy/embolectomy
  • C1758Catheter, ureteral
  • C1759Catheter, intracardiac echocardiography
  • C1761Catheter, transluminal intravascular lithotripsy, coronary
  • C1762Connective tissue, human (includes fascia lata)
  • C1763Connective tissue, non-human (includes synthetic)
  • C1764Event recorder, cardiac (implantable)
  • C1765Adhesion barrier
  • C1766Introducer/sheath, guiding, intracardiac electrophysiological, steerable, other than peel-away
  • C1767Generator, neurostimulator (implantable), non-rechargeable
  • C1768Graft, vascular
HCPCS Level II2026Q4-Oct· effective October 1, 2026