HCPCS Code Details - G8910

HCPCS Level II Code
Procedures/Professional Services (Temporary Codes)
HCPCS Code G8910
Description

Long description:
Patient documented to have experienced a fall within asc

Short description:
Pt doc to have fall in asc

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 C - Carrier judgment
BETOS2 code M5B - Specialist - psychiatry
HCPCS Action code N - No maintenance for this code
Type of service 1 - Medical care
Effective date Effective Apr 01, 2012
Date added Added Apr 01, 2012
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 G8909 · Patient documented not to have received a burn prior to discharge

  • HCPCS G8908 · Patient documented to have received a burn prior to discharge

  • HCPCS G8912 · Patient documented to have experienced a wrong site, wrong side, wrong patient, wrong procedure or wrong implant event

  • HCPCS G8914 · Patient documented to have experienced a hospital transfer or hospital admission upon discharge from asc

  • HCPCS G8911 · Patient documented not to have experienced a fall within ambulatory surgical center


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”