2025 HCPCS Code G8768

Documentation of medical reason(s) for not performing lipid profile (e.g., patients with palliative goals or for whom treatment of hypertension with standard treatment goals is not clinically appropriate)

TAGS: hypertension clinically patients performing palliative documentation treatment goals standard profile medical lipid

Notice	HCPCS G8768 terminated on December 31, 2014.
Short Description	Doc med reas no lipid profle
HCPCS Action Code	N - No maintenance for this code
HCPCS Coverage Code	C - Carrier judgment
HCPCS Code Added Date	January 01, 2012
HCPCS Action Effective Date	January 01, 2015
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 Type Of Service Code	1 - Medical care
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 Anesthesia Base Unit Quantity	0
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