HCPCS Code Details - G0908

HCPCS Level II Code
Procedures/Professional Services (Temporary Codes)
HCPCS Code G0908
Description

Long description:
Most recent hemoglobin (hgb) level > 12.0 g/dl

Short description:
Hgb > 12 g/dl

HCPCS Modifier1
HCPCS Pricing indicator 00 - Physician Fee Schedule And Non-Physician Practitioners - Service not separately priced by part B (e.g., services not covered, bundled, used by Part A only, etc.)
Multiple pricing indicator 9 - Not applicable as HCPCS not priced separately by part B or value is not established
Coverage code C - Carrier judgment
BETOS2 code M5D - Specialist - other
HCPCS Action code N - No maintenance for this code
Type of service 1 - Medical care
Effective date Effective Jan 01, 2015
Date added Added Jan 01, 2012
Termination date Dec 31, 2014
HCPCS Coding Procedures

HCPCS Modifiers

In HCPCS Level II, modifiers are composed of two alpha or alphanumeric characters.

Example: E0260-NU - Hospital bed, semi-electric (head and foot adjustment), with any type side rails, with mattress
NU” identifies the hospital bed as new equipment

See also

  • HCPCS G0659 · Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem), excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase), performed without method or drug-specific calibration, without matrix-matched quality control material, or without use of stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standard(s) for each drug, drug metabolite or drug class per specimen; qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day, any number of drug classes

  • HCPCS G0910 · Most recent hemoglobin level <= 12.0 g/dl

  • HCPCS G2089 · Most recent hemoglobin a1c (hba1c) level 7.0 to 9.0%

  • HCPCS G8973 · Most recent hemoglobin (hgb) level < 10 g/dl

  • HCPCS G8976 · Most recent hemoglobin (hgb) level >= 10 g/dl

  • HCPCS M1211 · Most recent hemoglobin a1c level > 9.0%

  • HCPCS G0909 · Hemoglobin level measurement not documented, reason not given


1 Two-digit numeric codes are Level I code modifiers copyrighted© by the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT).

2 BETOS stands for “Berenson-Eggers Type Of Service”