State Adds and Deletes Codes for Ambulance Services

The Executive Office of Health and Human Services has added two Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System codes and deleted one HCPCS code under 114.3 CMR 27.000, ambulance services. The two new codes are reimbursed at individual consideration, and the deleted code is not available for use for dates of service after Dec. 31, Administrative Bulletin 18-01 states. The added codes are A0170, transportation ancillary, parking fees, tolls, other (used only for ferry charges); and A0999, unlisted ambulance service (used for transporting bariatric patients only and requiring prior authorizatio...