G8906 HCPCS Level II Code: I intend to report the cataract measures group
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Cataract measures group
- 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, 2017
- Terminated: December 31, 2016
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, 2017.
Contextual Map
Every relationship of G8906 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)
- G8900 — I intend to report the sleep apnea measures group[Sibling]
- G8902 — I intend to report the dementia measures group[Sibling]
- G8903 — I intend to report the parkinson's disease measures group[Sibling]
- G8904 — I intend to report the hypertension (htn) measures group[Sibling]
- G8905 — I intend to report the cardiovascular prevention measures group[Sibling]
- G8907 — Patient documented not to have experienced any of the following events: a burn prior to discharge; a fall within the facility; wrong site/side/patient/procedure/implant event; or a hospital transfer or hospital admission upon discharge from the facility[Sibling]
- G8908 — Patient documented to have received a burn prior to discharge[Sibling]
- G8909 — Patient documented not to have received a burn prior to discharge[Sibling]
- and 32 more
Change history (2)
- January 1, 2017 — 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, 2017Removed from the code setI intend to report the cataract measures group
- January 1, 2012Added to the code setI intend to report the cataract measures group
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G8906 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G8900 — I intend to report the sleep apnea measures group
- G8902 — I intend to report the dementia measures group
- G8903 — I intend to report the parkinson's disease measures group
- G8904 — I intend to report the hypertension (htn) measures group
- G8905 — I intend to report the cardiovascular prevention measures group
- G8907 — Patient documented not to have experienced any of the following events: a burn prior to discharge; a fall within the facility; wrong site/side/patient/procedure/implant event; or a hospital transfer…
- G8908 — Patient documented to have received a burn prior to discharge
- G8909 — Patient documented not to have received a burn prior to discharge
- G8910 — Patient documented to have experienced a fall within asc
- G8911 — Patient documented not to have experienced a fall within ambulatory surgical center