Inspire Medical Systems: Palmetto Removes Lucrative Billing Code for Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation; Decision Means No Remaining Medicare Administrative Contractors Recognize Code

Published on Jan 02, 2026

The Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Palmetto removed the CPT code 64568 from its list of approved billing codes for Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation (HGNS), according to an update posted yesterday to the Medicare Coverage Database. The move follows the recent updates by the MACs Noridian, CGS, and WPS that similarly removed the code from their billing […]

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