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C1749: reimbursement & related procedures.

C1749 is the HCPCS Level II device code (often searched as CPT C1749) for: Endoscope, retrograde imaging/illumination colonoscope device (implantable). No public Medicare dataset shows who bills C1749: this class of device code never appears as its own paid line in Medicare's public claims files.

The reimbursement

What does Medicare pay for C1749?

C1749 is a packaged device code under Medicare's hospital outpatient system (OPPS status indicator N): its cost is bundled into the APC payment for the procedure it's used in. There is no separate payment, no APC of its own, and no fee-schedule rate to quote. In ambulatory surgical centers it is packaged into the surgical procedure's ASC payment: no separate payment.

OPPS status indicatorN

APCNone of its own: cost rides the procedure's APC

ASC payment indicatorN1: packaged into the surgical procedure's ASC payment: no separate payment

Fee schedule2026 OPPS Addendum B / ASC addenda

The honest answer

Why nobody can show you who bills C1749.

No public CMS dataset carries C1749 utilization, at any grain. Its cost is packaged into the facility's APC payment for the procedure it rides in (the OPPS status N packaging class), so the code never appears as its own paid line in Medicare's public claims files. The Medicare-visible side is the procedure, not the device.

Per-claim C-code detail exists only in restricted CMS research files that can't be used in a commercial product. So any site offering a "C1749 top billers" list is showing you something other than real data. We'd rather show you what actually exists: the procedures below are where this device shows up in Medicare's public data, and each one has a real who-bills answer.

New to this code class? Read how C-codes are reimbursed.

The visible side

The procedures C1749 rides with.

The device is invisible in the claims data. The procedures it's used in are not: each row below is public 2024 Medicare data.

Code	Procedure (CMS description)	Providers (2024)	Services
43264	Removal of stone or debris from bile or pancreatic duct…	1,404	42,117
43261	Biopsy of gallbladder, pancreatic, liver, and bile ducts…	63	1,191
43265	Destruction of stone of bile or pancreatic duct using a…	5	88

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Where this comes from. Payment status is CMS's own 2026 OPPS Addendum B and ASC addenda, labeled with the file year; codes with no separate payment render CMS's status in words, never a fake $0. Device-procedure pairings come from CMS's published pairings for pass-through devices plus the procedure codes each device class is documented to ride with. Related-procedure counts come from CMS's public Medicare Provider Utilization & Payment data for 2024 (traditional fee-for-service only; lines under 11 beneficiaries are suppressed by CMS before publication). No public CMS file carries per-code utilization for these device codes at any grain, and these pages say so instead of inventing it. Code descriptions are CMS's own HCPCS Level II text. Prospect 811 organizes public data; it doesn't add to or alter it. Not affiliated with or endorsed by CMS. Full detail on the data page.

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