HCPCS Code Details - G9846

HCPCS Level II Code
Procedures/Professional Services (Temporary Codes)
HCPCS Code G9846
Description

Long description:
Patients who died from cancer

Short description:
Pt died from cancer

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 Z2 - Undefined codes
HCPCS Action code N - No maintenance for this code
Type of service 1 - Medical care
Effective date Effective Jan 01, 2017
Date added Added Jan 01, 2017
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 G9845 · Patient received anti-egfr monoclonal antibody therapy

  • HCPCS G9849 · Patients who died from cancer

  • HCPCS G9852 · Patients who died from cancer

  • HCPCS G9855 · Patients who died from cancer

  • HCPCS G9859 · Patients who died from cancer

  • HCPCS M1342 · Patients who died during the performance period

  • HCPCS M1356 · Patients who died during the measurement period

  • HCPCS M1362 · Patients who died during the measurement period

  • HCPCS G9847 · Patient received systemic cancer-directed therapy in the last 14 days of life


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”