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E0960 HCPCS Level II Code: Wheelchair accessory, shoulder harness/straps or chest strap, including any type mounting hardware

Medicare Coverage & Payment

  • CMS short descriptor: W/c shoulder harness/straps
  • Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment (CMS coverage code C)
  • Payment category: Inexpensive or routinely purchased DME (pricing indicator 32)
  • BETOS: D1D — Wheelchairs
  • Last CMS action effective: January 1, 2004

Source: CMS HCPCS Level II release. Coverage codes indicate how Medicare treats the code, not whether a specific claim will be paid; payer policy and documentation still govern.

Contextual Map

Every relationship of E0960 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

Nearest codes (40)

Change history

  • January 1, 2004 — Added to the code set [Change history]

Sources for this page

Every coding fact on this page is read from the datasets below. Nothing is AI-generated; MedCoder-derived relationships and editorial are labelled where they appear.

Code, descriptors, coverage and pricing attributes
CMS HCPCS Alpha-Numeric (ANWEB) release — July 2026 quarterly update
Change history and date-of-service validity
CMS HCPCS quarterly update files, ingested into the change ledger
Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder-derived
Derived by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears

All data sources and release dates

Change history

  • January 1, 2004
    Added to the code set
    Wheelchair accessory, shoulder harness/straps or chest strap, including any type mounting hardware

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to E0960 in its code family, with their registry titles.