G8579 HCPCS Level II Code: Antiplatelet medication at discharge
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Antplt med disch
- Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment (CMS coverage code C)
- Payment category: Service not separately priced (pricing indicator 00)
- BETOS: M5D — Specialist - other
- Last CMS action effective: January 1, 2015
- Terminated: December 31, 2014
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 Set: Removed from the code set — not valid on or after January 1, 2015.
Contextual Map
Every relationship of G8579 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)
- G8545 — I intend to report the hepatitis c measures group[Sibling]
- G8547 — I intend to report the ischemic vascular disease (ivd) measures group[Sibling]
- G8548 — I intend to report the heart failure (hf) measures group[Sibling]
- G8549 — All quality actions for the applicable measures in the hepatitis c measures group have been performed for this patient[Sibling]
- G8551 — All quality actions for the applicable measures in the heart failure (hf) measures group have been performed for this patient[Sibling]
- G8552 — All quality actions for the applicable measures in the ischemic vascular disease (ivd) measures group have been performed for this patient[Sibling]
- G8559 — Patient referred to a physician (preferably a physician with training in disorders of the ear) for an otologic evaluation[Sibling]
- G8560 — Patient has a history of active drainage from the ear within the previous 90 days[Sibling]
- and 32 more
Change history (2)
- January 1, 2015 — Removed from the code set [Change history]
- and 1 more
Sources for this page
Every coding fact on this page is read from the datasets below. Nothing is AI-generated; MedCoder-derived relationships and editorial are labelled where they appear.
- Code, descriptors, coverage and pricing attributes
- CMS HCPCS Alpha-Numeric (ANWEB) release — July 2026 quarterly update
- Change history and date-of-service validity
- CMS HCPCS quarterly update files, ingested into the change ledger
- Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder-derived
- Derived by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Change history
- January 1, 2015Removed from the code setAntiplatelet medication at discharge
- January 1, 2010Added to the code setAntiplatelet medication at discharge
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G8579 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G8574 — No stroke following isolated cabg surgery
- G8575 — Developed postoperative renal failure or required dialysis
- G8576 — No postoperative renal failure/dialysis not required
- G8577 — Re-exploration required due to mediastinal bleeding with or without tamponade, unplanned coronary artery intervention (native, vessel, graft, or both), valve dysfunction, aortic reintervention, or…
- G8578 — Re-exploration not required due to mediastinal bleeding with or without tamponade, unplanned coronary artery intervention (native, vessel, graft, or both), valve dysfunction, aortic reintervention,…
- G8580 — Antiplatelet medication contraindicated
- G8581 — No antiplatelet medication at discharge
- G8582 — Beta-blocker at discharge
- G8583 — Beta-blocker contraindicated
- G8584 — No beta-blocker at discharge