Ambulance waiting time (als or bls), one half (1/2) hour increments
Transportation Services Including Ambulance, Medical & Surgical Supplies
A0420 is a valid 2024 HCPCS code for Ambulance waiting time (als or bls), one half (1/2) hour increments or just “Ambulance waiting 1/2 hr” for short, used in Ambulance.
HCPCS Level II Code Transportation Services Including Ambulance, Medical & Surgical Supplies |
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HCPCS Code | A0420 |
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Description |
Long description:
Short description: |
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.)
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Multiple pricing indicator |
9 - Not applicable as HCPCS not priced separately by part B or value is not established
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Coverage code | I - Not payable by Medicare |
BETOS2 code | O1A - Ambulance |
HCPCS Action code | N - No maintenance for this code |
Type of service | D - Ambulance |
Effective date | Effective Jan 01, 2014 |
Date added | Added Jan 01, 1995 |
HCPCS Coding Procedures |
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
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”