G8896 HCPCS Level II Code: Doc med reas no antihtrom
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Doc med reas no antihtrom
- Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment (CMS coverage code C)
- Payment category: Service not separately priced (pricing indicator 00)
- BETOS: M5B — Specialist - psychiatry
- 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 G8896 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)
- G8859 — Patient receiving corticosteroids greater than or equal to 10mg/day for 60 or greater consecutive days[Sibling]
- G8860 — Patients who have received dose of corticosteroids greater than or equal to 10mg/day for 60 or greater consecutive days[Sibling]
- G8861 — Within the past 2 years, central dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (dxa) ordered and documented, review of systems and medication history or pharmacologic therapy (other than minerals/vitamins) for osteoporosis prescribed[Sibling]
- G8862 — Patients not receiving corticosteroids greater than or equal to 10mg/day for 60 or greater consecutive days[Sibling]
- G8863 — Patients not assessed for risk of bone loss, reason not given[Sibling]
- G8864 — Pneumococcal vaccine administered or previously received[Sibling]
- G8865 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for not administering or previously receiving pneumococcal vaccine (e.g., patient allergic reaction, potential adverse drug reaction)[Sibling]
- G8866 — Documentation of patient reason(s) for not administering or previously receiving pneumococcal vaccine (e.g., patient refusal)[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 setDocumentation of medical reason(s) for not prescribing oral aspirin or other antithrombotic therapy (e.g., patient documented to be low risk or patient with terminal illness or treatment of hypertension with standard treatment goals is not clinically appropriate, or for whom risk of aspirin or other antithrombotic therapy exceeds potential benefits such as for individuals whose blood pressure is poorly controlled)
- January 1, 2012Added to the code setDocumentation of medical reason(s) for not prescribing oral aspirin or other antithrombotic therapy (e.g., patient documented to be low risk or patient with terminal illness or treatment of hypertension with standard treatment goals is not clinically appropriate, or for whom risk of aspirin or other antithrombotic therapy exceeds potential benefits such as for individuals whose blood pressure is poorly controlled)
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G8896 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G8889 — No documentation of blood pressure measurement, reason not given
- G8890 — Most recent ldl-c under control, results documented and reviewed
- G8891 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for most recent ldl-c not under control (e.g., patients with palliative goals for whom treatment of hypertension with standard treatment goals is not clinically…
- G8892 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for not performing ldl-c test (e.g. patients with palliative goals or for whom treatment of hypertension with standard treatment goals is not clinically appropriate)
- G8893 — Most recent ldl-c not under control, results documented and reviewed
- G8894 — Ldl-c not performed, reason not given
- G8895 — Oral aspirin or other antithrombotic therapy prescribed
- G8897 — Oral aspirin or other antithrombotic therapy was not prescribed, reason not given
- G8898 — I intend to report the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) measures group
- G8899 — I intend to report the inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) measures group