HCPCS Code A0998
Ambulance response and treatment, no transport
Transportation Services Including Ambulance, Medical & Surgical Supplies
A0998 is a valid 2025 HCPCS code for Ambulance response and treatment, no transport or just “Ambulance response/treatment” for short, used in Ambulance.
| HCPCS Level II Code Transportation Services Including Ambulance, Medical & Surgical Supplies |
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| HCPCS Code | A0998 |
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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, 2006 |
| Date added | Added Jan 01, 2006 |
| 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
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HCPCS A0888 · Noncovered ambulance mileage, per mile (e.g., for miles traveled beyond closest appropriate facility)
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HCPCS A0999 · Unlisted ambulance service
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”
