2024 HCPCS Code G8949
Documentation of patient reason(s) for patient not receiving counseling for diet and physical activity (e.g., patient is not willing to discuss diet or exercise interventions to help control blood pressure, or the patient said he/she refused to make these changes)
TAGS: counseling these willing control documentation activity discuss blood patient interventions exercise receiving physical refused
| Notice | HCPCS G8949 terminated on December 31, 2014. |
| Short Description | Doc pt reas on counsel diet |
| HCPCS Coverage Code | C - Carrier judgment |
| HCPCS Action Code | N - No maintenance for this code |
| HCPCS Action Effective Date | January 01, 2015 |
| HCPCS Code Added Date | January 01, 2013 |
| HCPCS Pricing Indicator Code | 00 - Service not separately priced by part B (e.G., services not covered, bundled, used by part a only, etc.) |
| HCPCS Multiple Pricing Indicator Code | 9 - Not applicable as HCPCS not priced separately by part B (pricing indicator is 00) or value is not established (pricing indicator is '99') |
| HCPCS Coverage Issues Manual Reference Section Number | |
| HCPCS Type Of Service Code | 1 - Medical care |
| HCPCS Anesthesia Base Unit Quantity | 0 |
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