Counseling and discussion regarding advance directives or end of life care planning and decisions, with patient and/or surrogate (list separately in addition to code for appropriate evaluation and management service)
Code effective Jan 01, 2005
HCPCS Section
Commercial Payers (Temporary Codes)
S0257 is a valid 2026 HCPCS code meaning Counseling and discussion regarding advance directives or end of life care planning and decisions, with patient and/or surrogate (list separately in addition to code for appropriate evaluation and management service) or (End of life counseling) for short. HCPCS S0257 has been effective since 01/01/2005 and applies to Other medical items or services.
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HCPCS Level II Code Section S - Commercial Payers (Temporary Codes) |
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| HCPCS Code | S0257 |
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| Description |
Long description:
Short description: |
| 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 | Z2 - Undefined codes |
| HCPCS Action code | N - No maintenance for this code |
| Type of service | 9 - Other medical items or services |
| Effective date | Effective Jan 01, 2005 |
| Date added | Added Jan 01, 2005 |
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2 BETOS stands for “Berenson-Eggers Type Of Service”
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