V2600 — Hand held low vision aids and other nonspectacle mounted aids
V2600 is a HCPCS Level II code for hand held low vision aids and other nonspectacle mounted aids. It belongs to the Vision, Hearing and Speech-Language Pathology 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 statusX
Statutory exclusion. The item or service is not within the statutory definition of 'physician services', so the fee schedule never pays it.
Global period: XXX
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Medically Unlikely Edits — units per day
The most units of V2600 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
- 0 — never payable MAI 2 — Date of Service Edit: Policy · CMS Policy
- outpatient
- 0 — never payable MAI 2 — Date of Service Edit: Policy · CMS Policy
- DME supplier
- 0 — never payable MAI 2 — Date of Service Edit: Policy · 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 V2600
- Long descriptor
- Hand held low vision aids and other nonspectacle mounted aids
- Short descriptor
- Hand held low vision aids
- Added
- January 1, 1985
- BETOS
- D1F
- Pricing indicator
- 46 — DMEPOS
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.
Carrier priced — not otherwise classified, individual determination, carrier discretion, or gap-filled amounts.
Codes adjacent to V2600
HCPCS has no hierarchy — related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If V2600 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.
- V2522Contact lens, hydrophilic, bifocal, per lens
- V2523Contact lens, hydrophilic, extended wear, per lens
- V2524Contact lens, hydrophilic, spherical, photochromic additive, per lens
- V2525Contact lens, hydrophilic, dual focus, per lens
- V2526Contact lens, hydrophilic, with blue-violet filter, per lens
- V2530Contact lens, scleral, gas impermeable, per lens (for contact lens modification, see 92325)
- V2531Contact lens, scleral, gas permeable, per lens (for contact lens modification, see 92325)
- V2599Contact lens, other type
- V2610Single lens spectacle mounted low vision aids
- V2615Telescopic and other compound lens system, including distance vision telescopic, near vision telescopes and compound microscopic lens system
- V2623Prosthetic eye, plastic, custom
- V2624Polishing/resurfacing of ocular prosthesis
- V2625Enlargement of ocular prosthesis
- V2626Reduction of ocular prosthesis
- V2627Scleral cover shell
- V2628Fabrication and fitting of ocular conformer
Questions about V2600
What is HCPCS code V2600?
V2600 is a HCPCS Level II code for hand held low vision aids and other nonspectacle mounted aids. It sits in the Vision, Hearing and Speech-Language Pathology section.
Does Medicare cover V2600?
The CMS HCPCS file marks V2600 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 V2600 paid under the physician fee schedule?
V2600 carries PFS status code X. Statutory exclusion. The item or service is not within the statutory definition of 'physician services', so the fee schedule never pays it.