LCD L36029: Urine Drug Testing — CGS
Pain Management
Government source· CMS / MACverify ↗HCPCS Level II code
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Code definition
Code
G0659
Code system
HCPCS Level II
Full description
Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem), excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase), performed without method or drug-specific calibration, without matrix-matched quality control material, or without use of stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standard(s) for each drug, drug metabolite or drug class per specimen; qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day, any number of drug classes
CLV Intelligence is tracking 4 policy changes that cite HCPCS G0659 most recently on 2026-06-05, drawn from 4 LCD/NCD coverage updates. The changes span Pain Management.
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