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Official Description

Specialty care transport (sct)
Short Descr Specialty care transport
Coverage Carrier Priced
Pricing Indicator(s) 52 – Reasonable charge
MPI A – Not applicable, as HCPCS priced under one methodology
BETOS O1A – Ambulance
TOS Code(s) D – Ambulance
Added Date 1/1/2001
Status Code Statutory Exclusion (from MPFS, may be paid under other methodologies)
Global Days XXX - Global Concept Does Not Apply
PC/TC Indicator (26, TC) 9 - Not Applicable
Multiple Procedures (51) 9 - Concept does not apply.
Bilateral Surgery (50) 9 - Concept does not apply.
Physician Supervisions 09 - Concept does not apply.
Assistant Surgeon (80, 82) 9 - Concept does not apply.
Co-Surgeons (62) 9 - Concept does not apply.
Team Surgery (66) 9 - Concept does not apply.
Diagnostic Imaging Family 99 - Concept Does Not Apply
APC Status Indicator Service Paid under Fee Schedule or Payment System other than OPPS
MUE 2
MUE Not applicable/unspecified.
OTS Orthotic No
CCS Clinical Classification 239 - Transportation - patient, provider, equipment
HH Integrated mental health/substance abuse program
HN Bachelors degree level
GY Item or service statutorily excluded, does not meet the definition of any medicare benefit or, for non-medicare insurers, is not a contract benefit
SH Second concurrently administered infusion therapy
GW Service not related to the hospice patient's terminal condition
HI Integrated mental health and intellectual disability/developmental disabilities program
QN Ambulance service furnished directly by a provider of services
HJ Employee assistance program
HR Family/couple with client present
76 Repeat procedure or service by same physician or other qualified health care professional: it may be necessary to indicate that a procedure or service was repeated by the same physician or other qualified health care professional subsequent to the original procedure or service. this circumstance may be reported by adding modifier 76 to the repeated procedure or service. note: this modifier should not be appended to an e/m service.
HE Mental health program
CC Procedure code change (use 'cc' when the procedure code submitted was changed either for administrative reasons or because an incorrect code was filed)
PN Non-excepted service provided at an off-campus, outpatient, provider-based department of a hospital
RR Rental (use the 'rr' modifier when dme is to be rented)
22 Increased procedural services: when the work required to provide a service is substantially greater than typically required, it may be identified by adding modifier 22 to the usual procedure code. documentation must support the substantial additional work and the reason for the additional work (ie, increased intensity, time, technical difficulty of procedure, severity of patient's condition, physical and mental effort required). note: this modifier should not be appended to an e/m service.
CR Catastrophe/disaster related
EP Service provided as part of medicaid early periodic screening diagnosis and treatment (epsdt) program
ET Emergency services
GA Waiver of liability statement issued as required by payer policy, individual case
GM Multiple patients on one ambulance trip
GN Services delivered under an outpatient speech language pathology plan of care
GV Attending physician not employed or paid under arrangement by the patient's hospice provider
GZ Item or service expected to be denied as not reasonable and necessary
HD Pregnant/parenting women's program
HG Opioid addiction treatment program
HP Doctoral level
HS Family/couple without client present
HX Funded by county/local agency
JE Administered via dialysate
NR New when rented (use the 'nr' modifier when dme which was new at the time of rental is subsequently purchased)
PI Positron emission tomography (pet) or pet/computed tomography (ct) to inform the initial treatment strategy of tumors that are biopsy proven or strongly suspected of being cancerous based on other diagnostic testing
QL Patient pronounced dead after ambulance called
RI Ramus intermedius coronary artery
RP Replacement and repair -rp may be used to indicate replacement of dme, orthotic and prosthetic devices which have been in use for sometime. the claim shows the code for the part, followed by the 'rp' modifier and the charge for the part.
SN Third surgical opinion
SS Home infusion services provided in the infusion suite of the iv therapy provider
U1 Medicaid level of care 1, as defined by each state
U4 Medicaid level of care 4, as defined by each state
UJ Services provided at night
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2001-01-01 Added Code added 1/1/2001
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