G8884 — Clinician documented reason that patient's biopsy results were not reviewed

Codes adjacent to G8884

HCPCS has no hierarchy — related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If G8884 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.

• G8876Documentation of reason(s) for not performing minimally invasive biopsy to diagnose breast cancer preoperatively (e.g., lesion too close to skin, implant, chest wall, etc., lesion could not be adequately visualized for needle biopsy, patient condition prevents needle biopsy [weight, breast thickness, etc.], duct excision without imaging abnormality, prophylactic mastectomy, reduction mammoplasty, excisional biopsy performed by another physician)
• G8877Clinician did not attempt to achieve the diagnosis of breast cancer preoperatively by a minimally invasive biopsy method, reason not given
• G8878Sentinel lymph node biopsy procedure performed
• G8879Clinically node negative (t1n0m0 or t2n0m0) invasive breast cancerterminated
• G8880Documentation 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 mastectomy, incidental discovery of breast cancer on reduction mammoplasty, pre-operative biopsy proven lymph node (ln) metastases, inflammatory carcinoma, stage 3 locally advanced cancer, recurrent invasive breast cancer, clinically node positive after neoadjuvant systemic therapy, patient refusal after informed consent, patient with significant age, comorbidities, or limited life expectancy and favorable tumor; adjuvant systemic therapy unlikely to change)
• G8881Stage of breast cancer is greater than t1n0m0 or t2n0m0
• G8882Sentinel lymph node biopsy procedure not performed, reason not given
• G8883Biopsy results reviewed, communicated, tracked and documentedterminated
• G8885Biopsy results not reviewed, communicated, tracked or documentedterminated
• G8886Most recent blood pressure under controlterminated
• G8887Documentation 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 not clinically appropriate)terminated
• G8888Most recent blood pressure not under control, results documented and reviewedterminated
• G8889No documentation of blood pressure measurement, reason not giventerminated
• G8890Most recent ldl-c under control, results documented and reviewedterminated
• G8891Documentation of medical reason(s) for most recent ldl-c not under control (e.g., patients with palliative goals for whom treatment of hypertension with standard treatment goals is not clinically appropriate)terminated
• G8892Documentation of medical reason(s) for not performing ldl-c test (e.g. patients with palliative goals or for whom treatment of hypertension with standard treatment goals is not clinically appropriate)terminated

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