J0650 — Injection, levothyroxine sodium, not otherwise specified, 10 mcg
J0650 is a HCPCS Level II code for injection, levothyroxine sodium, not otherwise specified, 10 mcg. It belongs to the Drugs Administered Other Than Oral Method section. Whether Medicare pays it depends on the coverage rule below.
Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment
Coverage is decided by your Medicare contractor, not by national policy. Whether this is paid depends on the LCD for your jurisdiction and on what the documentation supports.
From the coverage field of the CMS Alpha-Numeric HCPCS File, release 2026Q3-Jul. This states Medicare’s position on the code, not on your particular claim.
Physician fee schedule statusE
Excluded from the physician fee schedule by regulation. Payment, where it exists, comes from another fee schedule (drugs via ASP, supplies via DMEPOS, and so on).
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Medically Unlikely Edits — units per day
The most units of J0650 Medicare will pay on one date of service. Bill more on a single line and it is denied. The limit is not the same in every setting, so the row that matters is the one matching the claim you are building.
- practitioner
- 100 units MAI 3 — Date of Service Edit: Clinical · CMS Policy
- outpatient
- 100 units MAI 3 — Date of Service Edit: Clinical · CMS Policy
- DME supplier
- 100 units MAI 3 — Date of Service Edit: Clinical · CMS Policy
The adjudication indicator decides whether exceeding the limit is worth appealing at all: MAI 1 is a line edit you can support with documentation, MAI 3 is a date-of-service edit that is also appealable, and MAI 2 is absolute — no documentation overrides it. CMS MUE 2026Q3.
The CMS record for J0650
- Long descriptor
- Injection, levothyroxine sodium, not otherwise specified, 10 mcg
- Short descriptor
- Inj, levothyroxine nos 10mcg
- Added
- April 1, 2024
- BETOS
- O1E
- Pricing indicator
- 51 — Other
The official wording. This is what the code means.
CMS's 28-character form, which is what shows up on a remittance advice.
When CMS introduced the code.
Berenson-Eggers Type of Service — CMS's own analytic grouping.
Drugs.
Codes adjacent to J0650
HCPCS has no hierarchy — related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If J0650 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.
- J0620Injection, calcium glycerophosphate and calcium lactate, per 10 ml
- J0630Injection, calcitonin salmon, up to 400 units
- J0636Injection, calcitriol, 0.1 mcg
- J0637Injection, caspofungin acetate, 5 mg
- J0638Injection, canakinumab, 1 mg
- J0640Injection, leucovorin calcium, per 50 mg
- J0641Injection, levoleucovorin, not otherwise specified, 0.5 mg
- J0642Injection, levoleucovorin (khapzory), 0.5 mg
- J0651Injection, levothyroxine sodium (fresenius kabi), not therapeutically equivalent to j0650, 10 mcg
- J0652Injection, levothyroxine sodium (hikma), not therapeutically equivalent to j0650, 10 mcg
- J0654Injection, liothyronine, 1 mcg
- J0665Injection, bupivicaine, not otherwise specified, 0.5 mg
- J0666Injection, bupivacaine liposome, 1 mg
- J0668Instillation, bupivacaine and meloxicam, 1 mg/0.03 mg
- J0670Injection, mepivacaine hydrochloride, per 10 ml
- J0675Injection, carboprost tromethamine, 0.1 mg
Questions about J0650
What is HCPCS code J0650?
J0650 is a HCPCS Level II code for injection, levothyroxine sodium, not otherwise specified, 10 mcg. It sits in the Drugs Administered Other Than Oral Method section.
Does Medicare cover J0650?
The CMS HCPCS file marks J0650 as "Carrier judgment". Coverage is decided by your Medicare contractor, not by national policy. Whether this is paid depends on the LCD for your jurisdiction and on what the documentation supports.
How is J0650 paid under the physician fee schedule?
J0650 carries PFS status code E. Excluded from the physician fee schedule by regulation. Payment, where it exists, comes from another fee schedule (drugs via ASP, supplies via DMEPOS, and so on).