Medicare Coverage & Payment

CMS short descriptor: No antlipid treat 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 G8587 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]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
G8547 — I intend to report the ischemic vascular disease (ivd) measures group[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
G8548 — I intend to report the heart failure (hf) measures group[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
G8549 — All quality actions for the applicable measures in the hepatitis c measures group have been performed for this patient[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
G8551 — All quality actions for the applicable measures in the heart failure (hf) measures group have been performed for this patient[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
G8552 — All quality actions for the applicable measures in the ischemic vascular disease (ivd) measures group have been performed for this patient[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
G8559 — Patient referred to a physician (preferably a physician with training in disorders of the ear) for an otologic evaluation[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
G8560 — Patient has a history of active drainage from the ear within the previous 90 days[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
and 32 more

Change history (2)

January 1, 2015 — Removed from the code set [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger)
and 1 more

Sources for this page

Codes, titles, notes, index terms and mappings on this page are transcribed from the datasets below. Relationships MedCoder computed and text MedCoder wrote are labelled where they appear.

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
Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder structured relationship: Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder explanation: Written by MedCoder to explain the sources above: drafted with AI assistance, checked by a person against the release files, and labelled as MedCoder text where it appears. Not official text.

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Change history

January 1, 2015
Removed from the code set
No anti-lipid treatment at discharge
January 1, 2010
Added to the code set
No anti-lipid treatment at discharge

Nearest Codes in This Family

Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G8587 in its code family, with their registry titles.

G8587 HCPCS Level II Code: No anti-lipid treatment at discharge