HCPCS Code Details - G0406

HCPCS Level II Code
Procedures/Professional Services (Temporary Codes)
HCPCS Code G0406
Description

Long description:
Follow-up inpatient consultation, limited, physicians typically spend 15 minutes communicating with the patient via telehealth

Short description:
Inpt/tele follow up 15

HCPCS Modifier1
HCPCS Pricing indicator 13 - Clinical Lab Fee Schedule - Price established by carriers (e.g., not otherwise classified, individual determination, carrier discretion)
Multiple pricing indicator A - Not applicable as HCPCS priced under one methodology
Coverage code C - Carrier judgment
BETOS2 code M6 - Consultations
HCPCS Action code N - No maintenance for this code
Type of service 3 - Consultation
Effective date Effective Jan 01, 2012
Date added Added Jan 01, 2009
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 G0405 · Electrocardiogram, routine ecg with 12 leads; interpretation and report only, performed as a screening for the initial preventive physical examination

  • HCPCS G0407 · Follow-up inpatient consultation, intermediate, physicians typically spend 25 minutes communicating with the patient via telehealth

  • HCPCS G0408 · Follow-up inpatient consultation, complex, physicians typically spend 35 minutes communicating with the patient via telehealth


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”