C8010: Percutaneous placement of permanent common carotid embolic protection device, including all system components and imaging guidance; bilateral
C8010 is a HCPCS Level II code for percutaneous placement of permanent common carotid embolic protection device, including all system components and imaging guidance; bilateral. It belongs to the Outpatient Prospective Payment System section. It was terminated on September 30, 2026 and is not valid on new claims.
This code has been terminated
CMS terminated C8010 on September 30, 2026. It stays in the file as history: a claim you are auditing from before that date may legitimately carry it, but it must not appear on a new claim. The adjacent codes below are the usual place to look for its replacement.
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.
The CMS record for C8010
- Long descriptor
- Percutaneous placement of permanent common carotid embolic protection device, including all system components and imaging guidance; bilateral
- Short descriptor
- Pc plm pm c ctd emb prtc
- Added
- April 1, 2026
- Terminated
- September 30, 2026
- BETOS
- P1G
- 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.
When CMS retired it.
Berenson-Eggers Type of Service: CMS's own analytic grouping.
Statute.
Codes adjacent to C8010
HCPCS has no hierarchy: related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If C8010 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.
- C8002Preparation of skin cell suspension autograft, automated, including all enzymatic processing and device components (do not report with manual suspension preparation)
- C8003Implantation of medial knee extraarticular implantable shock absorber spanning the knee joint from distal femur to proximal tibia, open, includes measurements, positioning and adjustments, with imaging guidance (e.g., fluoroscopy)
- C8004Simulation angiogram with use of a pressure-generating catheter (e.g., one-way valve or occlusion balloon, intermittently or temporarily occluding), inclusive of all radiological supervision and interpretation, intraprocedural roadmapping, and imaging guidance necessary to complete the angiogram, for subsequent therapeutic radioembolization of tumors
- C8005Bronchoscopy, rigid or flexible, non-thermal transbronchial ablation of lesion(s) by pulsed electric field (pef) energy, including fluoroscopic and/or ultrasound guidance, when performed, with computed tomography acquisition(s) and 3d rendering, computer-assisted, image-guided navigation, and endobronchial ultrasound (ebus) guided transtracheal and/or transbronchial sampling (e.g., aspiration[s]/biopsy[ies]) of lung(s) and all mediastinal and/or hilar lymph node stations or structures, and therapeutic intervention(s)
- C8006Insertion of pleural-peritoneal shunt with intercostal pump chamber, including imaging, injection(s) of contrast with radiological supervision and interpretation, when performed
- C8007Open implantation of hypoglossal nerve neurostimulator array and pulse generator, not requiring insertion of a separate distal respiratory sensor electrode or electrode array
- C8008Revision or replacement of hypoglossal nerve neurostimulator array including connection to existing pulse generator
- C8009Removal of hypoglossal nerve neurostimulator array and pulse generator
- C8011Open implantation of hypoglossal nerve(s) neurostimulator electrode array(s) and receiver, including external power source and all system components
- C8012Revision or replacement of hypoglossal nerve(s) neurostimulator electrode array(s) and receiver
- C8013Removal of hypoglossal nerve(s) neurostimulator electrode array(s) and receiver
- C8014Cystourethroscopy, with ureteroscopy and/or pyeloscopy, with lithotripsy, including use of a suction enabled ureteral access sheath, with irrigation (if performed)
- C8900Magnetic resonance angiography with contrast, abdomen
- C8901Magnetic resonance angiography without contrast, abdomen
- C8902Magnetic resonance angiography without contrast followed by with contrast, abdomen
- C8903Magnetic resonance imaging with contrast, breast; unilateral