Noncovered ambulance mileage, per mile (e.g., for miles traveled beyond closest appropriate facility)
Transportation Services Including Ambulance, Medical & Surgical Supplies
A0888 is a valid 2025 HCPCS code for Noncovered ambulance mileage, per mile (e.g., for miles traveled beyond closest appropriate facility) or just “Noncovered ambulance mileage” for short, used in Ambulance.
HCPCS Level II Code Transportation Services Including Ambulance, Medical & Surgical Supplies |
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HCPCS Code | A0888 |
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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 | M - Non-covered 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, 1995 |
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”