G2079 – Take-home supply of buprenorphine (oral); up to 7 additional day supply (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program); list separately in addition to code for primary procedure

Long description

Take-home supply of buprenorphine (oral); up to 7 additional day supply (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program); list separately in addition to code for primary procedure

Short description

Take-hom buprenorphine

Pricing indicator

13 Priced by the Medicare contractor (carrier)

Medicare coverage

C Carrier judgment – coverage decided by the Medicare contractor

BETOS category

M5D Specialist - other

Added

January 1, 2020

Last change

January 1, 2020 – No change

Nearby G codes

• G2071 – Medication assisted treatment, buprenorphine (implant removal); weekly bundle including dispensing and/or administration, substance use counseling, individual and group therapy, and toxicology testing if performed (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program)
• G2072 – Medication assisted treatment, buprenorphine (implant insertion and removal); weekly bundle including dispensing and/or administration, substance use counseling, individual and group therapy, and toxicology testing if performed (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program)
• G2073 – Medication assisted treatment, naltrexone; weekly bundle including dispensing and/or administration, substance use counseling, individual and group therapy, and toxicology testing if performed (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program)
• G2074 – Medication assisted treatment, weekly bundle not including the drug, including substance use counseling, individual and group therapy, and toxicology testing if performed (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program)
• G2075 – Medication assisted treatment, medication not otherwise specified; weekly bundle including dispensing and/or administration, substance use counseling, individual and group therapy, and toxicology testing, if performed (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program)
• G2076 – Intake activities, including initial medical examination that is conducted by an appropriately licensed practitioner and preparation of a care plan, which may be informed by administration of a standardized, evidence-based assessment, and that includes the patient's goals and mutually agreed-upon actions for the patient to meet those goals, including harm reduction interventions; the patient's needs and goals in the areas of education, vocational training, and employment; and the medical and psychiatric, psychosocial, economic, legal, housing, physical activity and/or nutrition needs and other recovery support services that a patient needs and wishes to pursue, conducted by an appropriately licensed/credentialed personnel (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program); list separately in addition to each primary code
• G2077 – Periodic assessment; assessing periodically by an otp practitioner and includes a review of moud dosing, treatment response, other substance use disorder treatment needs, responses and patient-identified goals, and other relevant physical, nutrition and psychiatric treatment needs and goals; may be informed by administration of a standardized, evidence-based assessment, or the need and interest for harm reduction interventions and recovery support services (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program); list separately in addition to each primary code
• G2078 – Take-home supply of methadone; up to 7 additional day supply (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program); list separately in addition to code for primary procedure
• G2080 – Each additional 30 minutes of counseling in a week of medication assisted treatment, (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program); list separately in addition to code for primary procedure
• G2081 – Patients age 66 and older in institutional special needs plans (snp) or residing in long-term care with a pos code 32, 33, 34, 54 or 56 for more than 90 consecutive days during the measurement period
• G2082 – Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient that requires the supervision of a physician or other qualified health care professional and provision of up to 56 mg of esketamine nasal self-administration, includes 2 hours post-administration observation
• G2083 – Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient that requires the supervision of a physician or other qualified health care professional and provision of greater than 56 mg esketamine nasal self-administration, includes 2 hours post-administration observation
• G2086 – Office-based treatment for opioid use disorder, including development of the treatment plan, care coordination, individual therapy and group therapy and counseling; at least 70 minutes in the first calendar month
• G2087 – Office-based treatment for opioid use disorder, including care coordination, individual therapy and group therapy and counseling; at least 60 minutes in a subsequent calendar month
• G2088 – Office-based treatment for opioid use disorder, including care coordination, individual therapy and group therapy and counseling; each additional 30 minutes beyond the first 120 minutes (list separately in addition to code for primary procedure)
• G2089 – Most recent hemoglobin a1c (hba1c) level 7.0 to 9.0%