HCPCS Code Details - A0420

HCPCS Level II Code
Transportation Services Including Ambulance, Medical & Surgical Supplies
HCPCS Code A0420
Description

Long description:
Ambulance waiting time (als or bls), one half (1/2) hour increments

Short description:
Ambulance waiting 1/2 hr

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 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

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 A0398 · Als routine disposable supplies

  • HCPCS A0422 · Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation


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”