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E1090 HCPCS Level II Code: High strength lightweight wheelchair, detachable arms desk or full length, swing away detachable foot rests

Coding at a Glance

CMS cross-references
1 related code

Medicare Coverage & Payment

  • CMS short descriptor: Wheelchair lightweight det a
  • Medicare coverage: Not payable by Medicare (CMS coverage code I)
  • Payment category: Service not separately priced (pricing indicator 00)
  • BETOS: D1D — Wheelchairs
  • Last CMS action effective: April 1, 2001

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.

Related Codes

CMS cross-reference: code to use instead

The CMS HCPCS Level II code set carries an explicit cross-reference from this code (deleted or not valid for Medicare) to this code. A cross-referenced code can itself have been retired since; a terminated target is marked.

K0004 — High strength, lightweight wheelchair

Contextual Map

Every relationship of E1090 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)

CMS cross-reference

Change history

  • January 1, 1986 — 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, 1986
    Added to the code set
    High strength lightweight wheelchair, detachable arms desk or full length, swing away detachable foot rests

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to E1090 in its code family, with their registry titles.