J0695 — Injection, ceftolozane 50 mg and tazobactam 25 mg
J0695 is a HCPCS Level II code for injection, ceftolozane 50 mg and tazobactam 25 mg. It belongs to the Drugs Administered Other Than Oral Method section. Whether Medicare pays it depends on the coverage rule below.
Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment
Coverage is decided by your Medicare contractor, not by national policy. Whether this is paid depends on the LCD for your jurisdiction and on what the documentation supports.
From the coverage field of the CMS Alpha-Numeric HCPCS File, release 2026Q3-Jul. This states Medicare’s position on the code, not on your particular claim.
Physician fee schedule statusE
Excluded from the physician fee schedule by regulation. Payment, where it exists, comes from another fee schedule (drugs via ASP, supplies via DMEPOS, and so on).
Global period: XXX
Want the dollar amount for your locality? The fee calculator applies your GPCI and the current conversion factor.
Medically Unlikely Edits — units per day
The most units of J0695 Medicare will pay on one date of service. Bill more on a single line and it is denied. The limit is not the same in every setting, so the row that matters is the one matching the claim you are building.
- practitioner
- 60 units MAI 3 — Date of Service Edit: Clinical · Prescribing Information
- outpatient
- 60 units MAI 3 — Date of Service Edit: Clinical · Prescribing Information
- DME supplier
- 0 — never payable MAI 3 — Date of Service Edit: Clinical · CMS Policy
The adjudication indicator decides whether exceeding the limit is worth appealing at all: MAI 1 is a line edit you can support with documentation, MAI 3 is a date-of-service edit that is also appealable, and MAI 2 is absolute — no documentation overrides it. CMS MUE 2026Q3.
The CMS record for J0695
- Long descriptor
- Injection, ceftolozane 50 mg and tazobactam 25 mg
- Short descriptor
- Inj ceftolozane tazobactam
- Added
- January 1, 2016
- BETOS
- O1E
- Pricing indicator
- 51 — Other
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.
Drugs.
Codes adjacent to J0695
HCPCS has no hierarchy — related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If J0695 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.
- J0687Injection, cefazolin sodium (wg critical care), not therapeutically equivalent to j0690, 500 mg
- J0688Injection, cefazolin sodium (hikma), not therapeutically equivalent to j0690, 500 mg
- J0689Injection, cefazolin sodium (baxter), not therapeutically equivalent to j0690, 500 mg
- J0690Injection, cefazolin sodium, 500 mg
- J0691Injection, lefamulin, 1 mg
- J0692Injection, cefepime hydrochloride, 500 mg
- J0693Injection, cefiderocol, 5 mgterminated
- J0694Injection, cefoxitin sodium, 1 gm
- J0696Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg
- J0697Injection, sterile cefuroxime sodium, per 750 mg
- J0698Injection, cefotaxime sodium, per gm
- J0699Injection, cefiderocol, 10 mg
- J0701Injection, cefepime hydrochloride (baxter), not therapeutically equivalent to maxipime, 500 mg
- J0702Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg
- J0703Injection, cefepime hydrochloride (b braun), not therapeutically equivalent to maxipime, 500 mg
- J0706Injection, caffeine citrate, 5 mg
Questions about J0695
What is HCPCS code J0695?
J0695 is a HCPCS Level II code for injection, ceftolozane 50 mg and tazobactam 25 mg. It sits in the Drugs Administered Other Than Oral Method section.
Does Medicare cover J0695?
The CMS HCPCS file marks J0695 as "Carrier judgment". Coverage is decided by your Medicare contractor, not by national policy. Whether this is paid depends on the LCD for your jurisdiction and on what the documentation supports.
How is J0695 paid under the physician fee schedule?
J0695 carries PFS status code E. Excluded from the physician fee schedule by regulation. Payment, where it exists, comes from another fee schedule (drugs via ASP, supplies via DMEPOS, and so on).