C9600

What C9600 is

Percutaneous transcatheter placement of drug eluting intracoronary stent(s), with coronary angioplasty when performed; single major coronary artery or branch

HCPCS Level II long description, CMS October 2026 file. See the C codes page for the full section.

Medically Unlikely Edit (MUE)

Medicare caps C9600 at 3 units per date of service for practitioner claims (MAI 3 - date of service edit (clinical): units above the MUE may pay with documentation on appeal), rationale: Clinical: Data. Units above the cap are denied unless the edit's adjudication rules allow an appeal with documentation.

Billed with C9600? These codes are bundled into it

C9600 is a Column 1 code in 233 active NCCI PTP edits. When one of these Column 2 codes is reported on the same date of service, it is denied as bundled - unless the edit's modifier indicator is 1 and documentation supports a distinct service with an NCCI-associated modifier.

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C9600 is bundled into these codes

C9600 appears as a Column 2 code in 12 active edits. Reported with one of these Column 1 codes on the same date of service, C9600 is the code that denies.

Data: CMS CY2026 Physician Fee Schedule RVU file (October release, RVU26D) and Medicare NCCI PTP practitioner edits v32.3 (2026 Q4). Verify against the official files before billing or contracting decisions.