S0512: Daily wear specialty contact lens, per lens
S0512 is a HCPCS Level II code for daily wear specialty contact lens, per lens. It belongs to the Temporary National Codes (Non-Medicare) section. Medicare does not pay it: see the coverage note below before you bill it.
Medicare coverage: Not payable by Medicare
Medicare does not pay this code. It may still be valid for another payer, but a Medicare claim carrying it will not be reimbursed.
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 statusI
Not valid for Medicare purposes. Medicare uses another code.
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The CMS record for S0512
- Long descriptor
- Daily wear specialty contact lens, per lens
- Short descriptor
- Daily cont lens
- Added
- July 1, 2001
- BETOS
- Z2
- Pricing indicator
- 00: Not priced by Part B
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.
Service not separately priced by Part B, not covered, bundled into another service, or used by Part A only.
Codes adjacent to S0512
HCPCS has no hierarchy: related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If S0512 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.
- S0390Routine foot care; removal and/or trimming of corns, calluses and/or nails and preventive maintenance in specific medical conditions (e.g., diabetes), per visit
- S0395Impression casting of a foot performed by a practitioner other than the manufacturer of the orthotic
- S0400Global fee for extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy treatment of kidney stone(s)
- S0500Disposable contact lens, per lens
- S0504Single vision prescription lens (safety, athletic, or sunglass), per lens
- S0506Bifocal vision prescription lens (safety, athletic, or sunglass), per lens
- S0508Trifocal vision prescription lens (safety, athletic, or sunglass), per lens
- S0510Non-prescription lens (safety, athletic, or sunglass), per lens
- S0514Color contact lens, per lens
- S0515Scleral lens, liquid bandage device, per lens
- S0516Safety eyeglass frames
- S0518Sunglasses frames
- S0580Polycarbonate lens (list this code in addition to the basic code for the lens)
- S0581Nonstandard lens (list this code in addition to the basic code for the lens)
- S0590Integral lens service, miscellaneous services reported separately
- S0592Comprehensive contact lens evaluation