Q4190: Artacent ac, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
Q4190 is a HCPCS Level II code for artacent ac, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure). It belongs to the Temporary Codes section. Whether Medicare pays it depends on the coverage rule below.
Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment
Coverage is decided by your Medicare contractor, not by national policy. Whether this is paid depends on the LCD for your jurisdiction and on what the documentation supports.
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 statusA
Active code. Paid separately under the physician fee schedule.
- Work RVU
- 0.00
- PE (non-facility)
- 3.81
- PE (facility)
- 3.81
- Malpractice RVU
- 0.00
Global period: ZZZ
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The CMS record for Q4190
- Long descriptor
- Artacent ac, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Short descriptor
- Artacent ac 1 sq cm
- Added
- January 1, 2019
- BETOS
- O1E
- Pricing indicator
- 11: Physician fee schedule
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.
Price established using national RVUs.
Codes adjacent to Q4190
HCPCS has no hierarchy: related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If Q4190 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.
- Q4182Transcyte, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Q4183Surgigraft, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Q4184Cellesta or cellesta duo, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Q4185Cellesta flowable amnion (25 mg per cc); per 0.5 cc
- Q4186Epifix, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Q4187Epicord, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Q4188Amnioarmor, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Q4189Artacent ac, 1 mg
- Q4191Restorigin, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Q4192Restorigin, 1 cc
- Q4193Coll-e-derm, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Q4194Novachor, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Q4195Puraply, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Q4196Puraply am, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Q4197Puraply xt, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)
- Q4198Genesis amniotic membrane, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)