G0408 HCPCS Level II Code: Follow-up inpatient consultation, complex, physicians typically spend 35 minutes communicating with the patient via telehealth
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Inpt/tele follow up 35
- Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment (CMS coverage code C)
- Pricing indicator: 11
- BETOS: M6 — Consultations
- Last CMS action effective: January 1, 2012
Source: CMS HCPCS Level II release. Coverage codes indicate how Medicare treats the code, not whether a specific claim will be paid; payer policy and documentation still govern.
Contextual Map
Every relationship of G0408 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.
Nearest codes (40)
- G0400 — Home sleep test (hst) with type iv portable monitor, unattended; minimum of 3 channels[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G0402 — Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G0403 — Electrocardiogram, routine ecg with 12 leads; performed as a screening for the initial preventive physical examination with interpretation and report[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G0404 — Electrocardiogram, routine ecg with 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report, performed as a screening for the initial preventive physical examination[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G0405 — Electrocardiogram, routine ecg with 12 leads; interpretation and report only, performed as a screening for the initial preventive physical examination[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G0406 — Follow-up inpatient consultation, limited, physicians typically spend 15 minutes communicating with the patient via telehealth[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G0407 — Follow-up inpatient consultation, intermediate, physicians typically spend 25 minutes communicating with the patient via telehealth[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G0409 — Social work and psychological services, directly relating to and/or furthering the patient's rehabilitation goals, each 15 minutes, face-to-face; individual (services provided by a corf-qualified social worker or psychologist in a corf)[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- and 32 more
Change history
- January 1, 2009 — Added to the code set [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger)
Sources for this page
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- Code, descriptors, coverage and pricing attributes Official source data
- CMS HCPCS Alpha-Numeric (ANWEB) release — July 2026 quarterly update Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
- Change history and date-of-service validity Official source data
- CMS HCPCS quarterly update files, ingested into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
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Change history
- January 1, 2009Added to the code setFollow-up inpatient consultation, complex, physicians typically spend 35 minutes communicating with the patient via telehealth
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G0408 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G0403 — Electrocardiogram, routine ecg with 12 leads; performed as a screening for the initial preventive physical examination with interpretation and report
- G0404 — Electrocardiogram, routine ecg with 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report, performed as a screening for the initial preventive physical examination
- G0405 — Electrocardiogram, routine ecg with 12 leads; interpretation and report only, performed as a screening for the initial preventive physical examination
- G0406 — Follow-up inpatient consultation, limited, physicians typically spend 15 minutes communicating with the patient via telehealth
- G0407 — Follow-up inpatient consultation, intermediate, physicians typically spend 25 minutes communicating with the patient via telehealth
- G0409 — Social work and psychological services, directly relating to and/or furthering the patient's rehabilitation goals, each 15 minutes, face-to-face; individual (services provided by a corf-qualified…
- G0410 — Group psychotherapy other than of a multiple-family group, in a partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient setting, approximately 45 to 50 minutes
- G0411 — Interactive group psychotherapy, in a partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient setting, approximately 45 to 50 minutes
- G0412 — Open treatment of iliac spine(s), tuberosity avulsion, or iliac wing fracture(s), unilateral or bilateral for pelvic bone fracture patterns which do not disrupt the pelvic ring includes internal…
- G0413 — Percutaneous skeletal fixation of posterior pelvic bone fracture and/or dislocation, for fracture patterns which disrupt the pelvic ring, unilateral or bilateral, (includes ilium, sacroiliac joint…