HCPCS Code Details - S9961

HCPCS Level II Code
Commercial Payers (Temporary Codes)
HCPCS Code S9961
Description

Long description:
Ambulance service, conventional air service, nonemergency transport, one way (rotary wing)

Short description:
Air ambulan nonemerg rotary

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 I - Not payable by Medicare
BETOS2 code O1A - Ambulance
HCPCS Action code N - No maintenance for this code
Type of service D - Ambulance
Effective date Effective Jan 01, 2014
Date added Added Jan 01, 2014
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 A0430 · Ambulance service, conventional air services, transport, one way (fixed wing)

  • HCPCS A0431 · Ambulance service, conventional air services, transport, one way (rotary wing)

  • HCPCS S9960 · Ambulance service, conventional air service, nonemergency transport, one way (fixed wing)

  • HCPCS S9970 · Health club membership, annual


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”