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ready Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System

Abbreviation: HCPCS


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Each year, in the United States, health care insurers process over 5 billion claims for payment. For Medicare and other health insurance programs to ensure that these claims are processed in an orderly and consistent manner, standardized coding systems are essential. The HCPCS is divided into two principal subsystems, referred to as level I and level II of the HCPCS. Level I of the HCPCS is comprised of CPT (Current Procedural Terminology), a numeric coding system maintained by the American Medical Association (AMA). Level II of the HCPCS is a standardized coding system that is used primarily to identify products, supplies, and services not included in the CPT codes, such as ambulance services and durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) when used outside a physician's office.

Homepage https://www.cms.gov/medicare/coding/medhcpcsgeninfo/index.html

Countries that developed this resource United States

Created in 2012

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How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: HCPCS; Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.x81wz8; Last edited: Aug. 7, 2019, 2:30 p.m.; Last accessed: Feb 28 2021 1:31 p.m.


Record updated: June 24, 2019, 11:19 a.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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FAQ HCPCS Coding Questions
online documentation https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Educati ...
online documentation HCPCS Public Meetings

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Contact Cynthia Hake

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Bioportal http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/HCPCS

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release https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/HCPCSReleaseCodeSets/HCPCS-Quarter ...



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