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J2405

J2405: Injection, ondansetron hydrochloride, per 1 mg

HCPCSActiveBETOS O1E

J2405 is a HCPCS Level II code for injection, ondansetron hydrochloride, per 1 mg. It belongs to the Drugs Administered Other Than Oral Method section. Whether Medicare pays it depends on the coverage rule below.

Medicare coverage: Special coverage instructions apply

There are published conditions attached to this code. Check the applicable coverage policy before billing it: the code being valid is not the same as the service being covered.

From the coverage field of the CMS Alpha-Numeric HCPCS File, release 2026Q4-Oct. 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).

Global period: XXX

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Medically Unlikely Edits: units per day

The most units of J2405 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
64 units
MAI 3: Date of Service Edit: Clinical · Prescribing Information
outpatient
64 units
MAI 3: Date of Service Edit: Clinical · Prescribing Information
DME supplier
0, never payable
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 2026Q4.

The CMS record for J2405

Long descriptor
Injection, ondansetron hydrochloride, per 1 mg

The official wording. This is what the code means.

Short descriptor
Ondansetron hcl injection

CMS's 28-character form, which is what shows up on a remittance advice.

Added
January 1, 1993

When CMS introduced the code.

BETOS
O1E

Berenson-Eggers Type of Service: CMS's own analytic grouping.

Pricing indicator
51: Other

Drugs.

Codes adjacent to J2405

HCPCS has no hierarchy: related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If J2405 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.

  • J2372Injection, phenylephrine hydrochloride (biorphen), 20 micrograms
  • J2373Injection, phenylephrine hydrochloride (immphentiv), 20 micrograms
  • J2374Apraclonidine hydrochloride ophthalmic, 1% solution, 0.1 ml
  • J2400Injection, chloroprocaine hydrochloride, per 30 mlterminated
  • J2401Injection, chloroprocaine hydrochloride, per 1 mg
  • J2402Injection, chloroprocaine hydrochloride (clorotekal), per 1 mg
  • J2403Chloroprocaine hcl ophthalmic, 3% gel, 1 mg
  • J2404Injection, nicardipine, 0.1 mg
  • J2406Injection, oritavancin (kimyrsa), 10 mg
  • J2407Injection, oritavancin (orbactiv), 10 mg
  • J2410Injection, oxymorphone hcl, up to 1 mg
  • J2425Injection, palifermin, 50 micrograms
  • J2426Injection, paliperidone palmitate extended release (invega sustenna), 1 mg
  • J2427Injection, paliperidone palmitate extended release (invega hafyera, or invega trinza), 1 mg
  • J2428Injection, paliperidone palmitate extended release (erzofri), 1 mg
  • J2430Injection, pamidronate disodium, per 30 mg
HCPCS Level II2026Q4-Oct· effective October 1, 2026