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G0315 HCPCS Level II Code: Immunization counseling by a physician or other qualified health care professional for COVID-19, ages under 21, 5-15 mins time (this code is used for the medicaid early and periodic screening,…

Medicare Coverage & Payment

  • CMS short descriptor: Counsel immune <21 5-15 m
  • Medicare coverage: Not payable by Medicare (CMS coverage code I)
  • Pricing indicator: 99
  • BETOS: M5D — Specialist - other
  • Last CMS action effective: May 11, 2022

Source: CMS HCPCS Level II release. Coverage codes indicate how Medicare treats the code, not whether a specific claim will be paid; payer policy and documentation still govern.

Code Overview

Immunization counseling by a physician or other qualified health care professional for covid-19, ages under 21, 5-15 mins time (this code is used for the medicaid early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment benefit (epsdt) is a HCPCS Level II code (G0315). CMS assigns coverage code I — Not payable by Medicare. Short description: Counsel immune <21 5-15 m.

MedCoder summary Summary composed by MedCoder from this code's official HCPCS Level II record. The tabular instructional notes themselves appear verbatim below.

Contextual Map

Every relationship of G0315 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)

Change history

  • May 11, 2022 — Added to the code set [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger)

Sources for this page

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Code, descriptors, coverage and pricing attributes Official source data
CMS HCPCS Alpha-Numeric (ANWEB) release — July 2026 quarterly update Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
Change history and date-of-service validity Official source data
CMS HCPCS quarterly update files, ingested into the change ledger Release, file and checksum · Publisher’s page
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Change history

  • May 11, 2022
    Added to the code set
    Immunization counseling by a physician or other qualified health care professional for covid-19, ages under 21, 5-15 mins time (this code is used for the medicaid early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment benefit (epsdt)

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G0315 in its code family, with their registry titles.