A Code

A level II HCPCS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS, formerly Health Care Financing Administration—HCFA) Common Procedural Coding System code, which is used to bill for certain types of supplies.

References in classic literature ?

Vronsky's life was particularly happy in that he had a code of principles, which defined with unfailing certitude what he ought and what he ought not to do.

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The same gentleman had given them a code of laws, to which they conformed with scrupulous fidelity.

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This enhancement involves stricter enforcement of CMS edits, causing rejection of records that contain even one invalid value--for example, a code of 5 at an MDS item for which the valid response codes are 1, 2, 3 or 4.

The Federal Government's Campaign to Improve MDS Accuracy

"Since DNA is itself a code, why not use its enormous complexity to hide a message?" says Bancroft.