G8883 HCPCS Level II Code: Biopsy results reviewed, communicated, tracked and documented
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Rev, comm, track, doc biopsy
- Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment (CMS coverage code C)
- Payment category: Service not separately priced (pricing indicator 00)
- BETOS: M5B — Specialist - psychiatry
- Last CMS action effective: January 1, 2024
- Terminated: December 31, 2023
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.
Code Set: Removed from the code set — not valid on or after January 1, 2024.
Contextual Map
Every relationship of G8883 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)
- G8859 — Patient receiving corticosteroids greater than or equal to 10mg/day for 60 or greater consecutive days[Sibling]
- G8860 — Patients who have received dose of corticosteroids greater than or equal to 10mg/day for 60 or greater consecutive days[Sibling]
- G8861 — Within the past 2 years, central dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (dxa) ordered and documented, review of systems and medication history or pharmacologic therapy (other than minerals/vitamins) for osteoporosis prescribed[Sibling]
- G8862 — Patients not receiving corticosteroids greater than or equal to 10mg/day for 60 or greater consecutive days[Sibling]
- G8863 — Patients not assessed for risk of bone loss, reason not given[Sibling]
- G8864 — Pneumococcal vaccine administered or previously received[Sibling]
- G8865 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for not administering or previously receiving pneumococcal vaccine (e.g., patient allergic reaction, potential adverse drug reaction)[Sibling]
- G8866 — Documentation of patient reason(s) for not administering or previously receiving pneumococcal vaccine (e.g., patient refusal)[Sibling]
- and 32 more
Change history (2)
- January 1, 2024 — Removed from the code set [Change history]
- and 1 more
Sources for this page
Every coding fact on this page is read from the datasets below. Nothing is AI-generated; MedCoder-derived relationships and editorial are labelled where they appear.
- Code, descriptors, coverage and pricing attributes
- CMS HCPCS Alpha-Numeric (ANWEB) release — July 2026 quarterly update
- Change history and date-of-service validity
- CMS HCPCS quarterly update files, ingested into the change ledger
- Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder-derived
- Derived by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Change history
- January 1, 2024Removed from the code setBiopsy results reviewed, communicated, tracked and documented
- January 1, 2012Added to the code setBiopsy results reviewed, communicated, tracked and documented
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G8883 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G8878 — Sentinel lymph node biopsy procedure performed
- G8879 — Clinically node negative (t1n0m0 or t2n0m0) invasive breast cancer
- G8880 — Documentation of reason(s) sentinel lymph node biopsy not performed (e.g., reasons could include but not limited to; non-invasive cancer, incidental discovery of breast cancer on prophylactic…
- G8881 — Stage of breast cancer is greater than t1n0m0 or t2n0m0
- G8882 — Sentinel lymph node biopsy procedure not performed, reason not given
- G8884 — Clinician documented reason that patient's biopsy results were not reviewed
- G8885 — Biopsy results not reviewed, communicated, tracked or documented
- G8886 — Most recent blood pressure under control
- G8887 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for most recent blood pressure not being under control (e.g., patients with palliative goals or for whom treatment of hypertension with standard treatment goals is…
- G8888 — Most recent blood pressure not under control, results documented and reviewed