G8908 HCPCS Level II Code: Patient documented to have received a burn prior to discharge
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Pt doc w burn prior to d/c
- 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: April 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 G8908 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)
- G8900 — I intend to report the sleep apnea measures group[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8902 — I intend to report the dementia measures group[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8903 — I intend to report the parkinson's disease measures group[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8904 — I intend to report the hypertension (htn) measures group[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8905 — I intend to report the cardiovascular prevention measures group[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8906 — I intend to report the cataract measures group[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8907 — Patient documented not to have experienced any of the following events: a burn prior to discharge; a fall within the facility; wrong site/side/patient/procedure/implant event; or a hospital transfer or hospital admission upon discharge from the facility[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8909 — Patient documented not to have received a burn prior to discharge[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- and 32 more
Change history
- April 1, 2012 — 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
- Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder structured relationship
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- Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder explanation
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Change history
- April 1, 2012Added to the code setPatient documented to have received a burn prior to discharge
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G8908 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G8903 — I intend to report the parkinson's disease measures group
- G8904 — I intend to report the hypertension (htn) measures group
- G8905 — I intend to report the cardiovascular prevention measures group
- G8906 — I intend to report the cataract measures group
- G8907 — Patient documented not to have experienced any of the following events: a burn prior to discharge; a fall within the facility; wrong site/side/patient/procedure/implant event; or a hospital transfer…
- G8909 — Patient documented not to have received a burn prior to discharge
- G8910 — Patient documented to have experienced a fall within asc
- G8911 — Patient documented not to have experienced a fall within ambulatory surgical center
- G8912 — Patient documented to have experienced a wrong site, wrong side, wrong patient, wrong procedure or wrong implant event
- G8913 — Patient documented not to have experienced a wrong site, wrong side, wrong patient, wrong procedure or wrong implant event