E0650: Pneumatic compressor, non-segmental home model
E0650 is a HCPCS Level II code for pneumatic compressor, non-segmental home model. It belongs to the Durable Medical Equipment 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 E0650 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 · Nature of Equipment
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 E0650
- Long descriptor
- Pneumatic compressor, non-segmental home model
- Short descriptor
- Pneuma compresor non-segment
- Added
- January 1, 1986
- BETOS
- D1E
- Pricing indicator
- 32: 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.
Inexpensive and routinely purchased DME. Price subject to floors and ceilings.
Codes adjacent to E0650
HCPCS has no hierarchy: related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If E0650 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.
- E0635Patient lift, electric with seat or sling
- E0636Multipositional patient support system, with integrated lift, patient accessible controls
- E0637Combination sit to stand frame/table system, any size including pediatric, with seat lift feature, with or without wheels
- E0638Standing frame/table system, one position (e.g., upright, supine or prone stander), any size including pediatric, with or without wheels
- E0639Patient lift, moveable from room to room with disassembly and reassembly, includes all components/accessories
- E0640Patient lift, fixed system, includes all components/accessories
- E0641Standing frame/table system, multi-position (e.g., three-way stander), any size including pediatric, with or without wheels
- E0642Standing frame/table system, mobile (dynamic stander), any size including pediatric
- E0651Pneumatic compressor, segmental home model without calibrated gradient pressure
- E0652Pneumatic compressor, segmental home model with calibrated gradient pressure
- E0655Non-segmental pneumatic appliance for use with pneumatic compressor, half arm
- E0656Segmental pneumatic appliance for use with pneumatic compressor, trunk
- E0657Segmental pneumatic appliance for use with pneumatic compressor, chest
- E0658Segmental pneumatic appliance for use with pneumatic compressor, integrated, 2 full arms and chest
- E0659Segmental pneumatic appliance for use with pneumatic compressor, integrated, head, neck and chest
- E0660Non-segmental pneumatic appliance for use with pneumatic compressor, full leg