HCPCS Level III
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HCPCS Level III was a category of locally developed medical billing codes, often created by state Medicaid agencies or private insurers, used to report services and supplies not covered by national HCPCS Level I and II codes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| HCPCS Level III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11574052 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: HCPCS Level III Context triple: [Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System, hasComponent, HCPCS Level III]
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A.
HCPCS Level II
HCPCS Level II is a standardized coding system used in the United States to identify non-physician services, supplies, and products such as durable medical equipment and ambulance services for billing and administrative purposes.
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B.
HUC codes
HUC codes are a standardized numerical system used by the U.S. Geological Survey to uniquely identify and classify watersheds and hydrologic units across the United States.
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C.
CPT code set
The CPT code set is a standardized medical coding system used in the United States to describe medical, surgical, and diagnostic services for billing and documentation purposes.
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D.
Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) is a standardized coding system used in the United States to classify medical procedures, supplies, and services for billing and reimbursement, particularly under Medicare and Medicaid.
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E.
Current Procedural Terminology
Current Procedural Terminology is a standardized medical code set used in the United States to document and bill for medical, surgical, and diagnostic services.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: HCPCS Level III Target entity description: HCPCS Level III was a category of locally developed medical billing codes, often created by state Medicaid agencies or private insurers, used to report services and supplies not covered by national HCPCS Level I and II codes.
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A.
HCPCS Level II
HCPCS Level II is a standardized coding system used in the United States to identify non-physician services, supplies, and products such as durable medical equipment and ambulance services for billing and administrative purposes.
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B.
HUC codes
HUC codes are a standardized numerical system used by the U.S. Geological Survey to uniquely identify and classify watersheds and hydrologic units across the United States.
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C.
CPT code set
The CPT code set is a standardized medical coding system used in the United States to describe medical, surgical, and diagnostic services for billing and documentation purposes.
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D.
Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) is a standardized coding system used in the United States to classify medical procedures, supplies, and services for billing and reimbursement, particularly under Medicare and Medicaid.
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E.
Current Procedural Terminology
Current Procedural Terminology is a standardized medical code set used in the United States to document and bill for medical, surgical, and diagnostic services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
healthcare reimbursement classification
ⓘ
medical billing code set ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
HCPCS local codes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
local codes ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
items not described by national HCPCS codes
ⓘ
procedures ⓘ services ⓘ supplies ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Medicaid programs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Medicare administrative contractors NERFINISHED ⓘ commercial health plans ⓘ |
| classificationSystem | procedure and supply coding ⓘ |
| complements |
HCPCS Level I
ⓘ
HCPCS Level II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dataType | alphanumeric codes ⓘ |
| developedBy |
Medicare contractors
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
private insurers ⓘ state Medicaid agencies ⓘ |
| domain |
health insurance claims
ⓘ
medical services coding ⓘ |
| governedBy | local payer policies ⓘ |
| granularity | payer-specific detail beyond national codes ⓘ |
| maintenance | maintained by individual payers rather than a single national body ⓘ |
| notCoveredBy |
national HCPCS Level I codes
ⓘ
national HCPCS Level II codes ⓘ |
| partOf | Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
to allow payers to define additional billable services
ⓘ
to capture utilization of services unique to a region or payer ⓘ |
| regulates | reimbursement for locally defined services ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
CPT
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HCPCS Level II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | expanded use of national HCPCS Level I and II codes ⓘ |
| scope |
local or regional use
ⓘ
payer-specific use ⓘ |
| standardizationLevel | less standardized than national HCPCS codes ⓘ |
| status | discontinued as a formal HCPCS level ⓘ |
| usedFor |
healthcare claims processing
ⓘ
medical billing ⓘ reporting services and supplies not covered by national HCPCS codes ⓘ |
| usedIn | United States healthcare system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: HCPCS Level III Description of subject: HCPCS Level III was a category of locally developed medical billing codes, often created by state Medicaid agencies or private insurers, used to report services and supplies not covered by national HCPCS Level I and II codes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.