Episodic/focused services
Full descriptor
Episodic/focused services: for reporting services by clinicians who provide focused care on particular types of treatment limited to a defined period and circumstance; the patient has a problem, acute or chronic, that will be treated with surgery, radiation, or some other type of generally time-limited intervention; reporting clinician service examples include but are not limited to, the orthopedic surgeon performing a knee replacement and seeing the patient through the postoperative period
Details
- Code
- X4
- Short descriptor
- Episodic/focused services
- Code set
- HCPCS Modifiers
- Release
- July 2026
- Status
- Active
- Added
- Jan 1 2018
Nearby codes
Code sets are published in blocks, so neighbours are usually related.
Episodic/broad services
Svc req by another clinician
Continuous/focused services
Continuous/broad services
Separate encounter
Separate practitioner
Separate organ/structure
Unusual separate service
Sources
- CMS HCPCS Modifiers — July 2026, public domain
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