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C7553

R&i hrt art/vent ang drg ad

Catheter placement in coronary artery(s) for coronary angiography, including intraprocedural injection(s) for coronary angiography, imaging supervision and interpretation; with right and left heart catheterization including intraprocedural injection(s) for left ventriculography, when performed, catheter placement(s) in bypass graft(s) (internal mammary, free arterial, venous grafts) with bypass graft angiography with pharmacologic agent administration (eg, inhaled nitric oxide, intravenous infusion of nitroprusside, dobutamine, milrinone, or other agent) including assessing hemodynamic measurements before, during, after and repeat pharmacologic agent administration, when performed

Code system
HCPCS Level II
Status
Active
Billable
Yes
In effect from
2023-01-01
Request
curl https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/codes/hcpcs/C7553 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
200 OK · application/json
{
  "data": {
    "code": "C7553",
    "parent": null,
    "status": "active",
    "system": "hcpcs",
    "display": "R&i hrt art/vent ang drg ad",
    "billable": true,
    "attributes": {
      "betos": "P2F",
      "coverage": "C",
      "action_code": "N",
      "type_of_service": "2",
      "pricing_indicator": "11",
      "action_effective_date": "2024-01-01"
    },
    "description": "Catheter placement in coronary artery(s) for coronary angiography, including intraprocedural injection(s) for coronary angiography, imaging supervision and interpretation; with right and left heart catheterization including intraprocedural injection(s) for left ventriculography, when performed, catheter placement(s) in bypass graft(s) (internal mammary, free arterial, venous grafts) with bypass graft angiography with pharmacologic agent administration (eg, inhaled nitric oxide, intravenous infusion of nitroprusside, dobutamine, milrinone, or other agent) including assessing hemodynamic measurements before, during, after and repeat pharmacologic agent administration, when performed",
    "replaced_by": [],
    "effective_end": null,
    "effective_start": "2023-01-01",
    "care_categories": [
      "heart-procedures"
    ],
    "care_category_details": [
      {
        "slug": "heart-procedures",
        "name": "Heart procedures",
        "confidence": 0.9,
        "derivation": "source_stated",
        "evidence": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/coding-billing/healthcare-common-procedure-system/quarterly-update",
            "anchor": "HCPCS Level II BETOS type of service P2F"
          }
        ],
        "as_of": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "cms-hcpcs",
    "data_version": "2026-10"
  }
}

CMS attributes

C7553 in the HCPCS file

betos
P2F
coverage
C
action code
N
type of service
2
pricing indicator
11
action effective date
2024-01-01

Change history

Lifecycle

C7553 has been in effect since 2023-01-01. This page shows HCPCS Level II release 2026-10.

Add as_of=YYYY-MM-DD to the request to get this code exactly as it was on a past date. The change feed (GET /v1/changes) lists what each release added, changed or retired across the whole dataset; a per-code change list isn't published yet.

Use it

Look up C7553 from code or an agent

curl
curl https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/codes/hcpcs/C7553 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
MCP prompt
Using the healthcare.dev MCP server, look up HCPCS Level II code C7553. Tell me what it covers, whether it is active and since when, and any CMS attributes it has.

Source: CMS, release 2026-10. Public domain (D-series CDT codes excluded). Reference data, not medical or billing advice.