Documentation of medical or patient reason(s) for not ordering or performing screening for hcc. medical reason: comorbid medical conditions with expected survival < 5 years, hepatic decompensation and not a candidate for liver transplantation, or other medical reasons; patient reasons: patient declined or other patient reasons (e.g., cost of tests, time related to accessing testing equipment)
Procedures/Professional Services (Temporary Codes)
G9456 is a valid 2025 HCPCS code for Documentation of medical or patient reason(s) for not ordering or performing screening for hcc. medical reason: comorbid medical conditions with expected survival < 5 years, hepatic decompensation and not a candidate for liver transplantation, or other medical reasons; patient reasons: patient declined or other patient reasons (e.g., cost of tests, time related to accessing testing equipment) or just “Doc med pt reas no hcc scrn” for short, used in Medical care.
HCPCS Level II Code Procedures/Professional Services (Temporary Codes) |
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HCPCS Code | G9456 |
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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 | C - Carrier judgment |
BETOS2 code | Z2 - Undefined codes |
HCPCS Action code | N - No maintenance for this code |
Type of service | 1 - Medical care |
Effective date | Effective Jan 01, 2015 |
Date added | Added Jan 01, 2015 |
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”