HCPCS Code Details - S0271

HCPCS Level II Code
Commercial Payers (Temporary Codes)
HCPCS Code S0271
Description

Long description:
Physician management of patient home care, hospice monthly case rate (per 30 days)

Short description:
Home hospice case 30 days

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 I - Not payable by Medicare
BETOS2 code Z2 - Undefined codes
HCPCS Action code N - No maintenance for this code
Type of service 9 - Other medical items or services
Effective date Effective Apr 01, 2007
Date added Added Apr 01, 2007
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 S0270 · Physician management of patient home care, standard monthly case rate (per 30 days)

  • HCPCS S0272 · Physician management of patient home care, episodic care monthly case rate (per 30 days)


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”