G0154 HCPCS Level II Code: Direct skilled nursing services of a licensed nurse (lpn or rn) in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes

Contextual Map

Every relationship of G0154 in one view: hierarchy, official tabular instructions in both directions, clinical classification, risk adjustment, MS-DRG participation, index terms and change history — each edge carrying the CMS source it derives from.

Nearest codes (40)

• G0123 — Screening cytopathology, cervical or vaginal (any reporting system), collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer preparation, screening by cytotechnologist under physician supervision[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G0124 — Screening cytopathology, cervical or vaginal (any reporting system), collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer preparation, requiring interpretation by physician[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G0127 — Trimming of dystrophic nails, any number[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G0128 — Direct (face-to-face with patient) skilled nursing services of a registered nurse provided in a comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility, each 10 minutes beyond the first 5 minutes[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G0129 — Occupational therapy services requiring the skills of a qualified occupational therapist, furnished as a component of a partial hospitalization or intensive outpatient treatment program, per session (45 minutes or more)[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G0130 — Single energy x-ray absorptiometry (sexa) bone density study, one or more sites; appendicular skeleton (peripheral) (e.g., radius, wrist, heel)[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G0136 — Administration of a standardized, evidence-based assessment of physical activity and nutrition, 5-15 minutes, not more often than every 6 months[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G0137 — Intensive outpatient services; weekly bundle, minimum of 9 services over a 7 contiguous day period, which can include individual and group therapy with physicians or psychologists (or other mental health professionals to the extent authorized under state law); occupational therapy requiring the skills of a qualified occupational therapist; services of social workers, trained psychiatric nurses, and other staff trained to work with psychiatric patients; individualized activity therapies that are not primarily recreational or diversionary; family counseling (the primary purpose of which is treatment of the individual's condition); patient training and education (to the extent that training and educational activities are closely and clearly related to individual's care and treatment); diagnostic services; and such other items and services (excluding meals and transportation) that are reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis or active treatment of the individual's condition, reasonably expected to improve or maintain the individual's condition and functional level and to prevent relapse or hospitalization, and furnished pursuant to such guidelines relating to frequency and duration of services in accordance with a physician certification and plan of treatment (provision of the services by a medicare-enrolled opioid treatment program); list separately in addition to code for primary procedure[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• and 32 more

Change history (2)

• March 1, 2016 — Removed from the code set [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger)
• and 1 more

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CMS HCPCS Alpha-Numeric (ANWEB) release — July 2026 quarterly update Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page

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CMS HCPCS quarterly update files, ingested into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page

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Nearest Codes in This Family

Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G0154 in its code family, with their registry titles.

• G0147 — Screening cytopathology smears, cervical or vaginal, performed by automated system under physician supervision
• G0148 — Screening cytopathology smears, cervical or vaginal, performed by automated system with manual rescreening
• G0151 — Services performed by a qualified physical therapist in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes
• G0152 — Services performed by a qualified occupational therapist in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes
• G0153 — Services performed by a qualified speech-language pathologist in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes
• G0155 — Services of clinical social worker in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes
• G0156 — Services of home health/hospice aide in home health or hospice settings, each 15 minutes
• G0157 — Services performed by a qualified physical therapist assistant in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes
• G0158 — Services performed by a qualified occupational therapist assistant in the home health or hospice setting, each 15 minutes
• G0159 — Services performed by a qualified physical therapist, in the home health setting, in the establishment or delivery of a safe and effective physical therapy maintenance program, each 15 minutes