G8935 HCPCS Level II Code: Clinician prescribed angiotensin converting enzyme (ace) inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (arb) therapy
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Rx ace or arb therapy
- 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, 2013
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.
Contextual Map
Every relationship of G8935 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)
- G8911 — Patient documented not to have experienced a fall within ambulatory surgical center[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8912 — Patient documented to have experienced a wrong site, wrong side, wrong patient, wrong procedure or wrong implant event[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8913 — Patient documented not to have experienced a wrong site, wrong side, wrong patient, wrong procedure or wrong implant event[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8914 — Patient documented to have experienced a hospital transfer or hospital admission upon discharge from asc[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8915 — Patient documented not to have experienced a hospital transfer or hospital admission upon discharge from asc[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8916 — Patient with preoperative order for iv antibiotic surgical site infection (ssi) prophylaxis, antibiotic initiated on time[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8917 — Patient with preoperative order for iv antibiotic surgical site infection (ssi) prophylaxis, antibiotic not initiated on time[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8918 — Patient without preoperative order for iv antibiotic surgical site infection (ssi) prophylaxis[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- and 32 more
Change history
- January 1, 2013 — 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
- Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder structured relationship
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Change history
- January 1, 2013Added to the code setClinician prescribed angiotensin converting enzyme (ace) inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (arb) therapy
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G8935 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G8930 — Assessment of depression severity at the initial evaluation
- G8931 — Assessment of depression severity not documented, reason not given
- G8932 — Suicide risk assessed at the initial evaluation
- G8933 — Suicide risk not assessed at the initial evaluation, reason not given
- G8934 — Current or prior left ventricular ejection fraction (lvef) <=40% or documentation of moderately or severely depressed left ventricular systolic function
- G8936 — Clinician documented that patient was not an eligible candidate for angiotensin converting enzyme (ace) inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (arb) therapy (eg, allergy, intolerance, pregnancy,…
- G8937 — Clinician did not prescribe angiotensin converting enzyme (ace) inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (arb) therapy, reason not given
- G8938 — Bmi is documented as being outside of normal parameters, follow-up plan is not documented, documentation the patient is not eligible
- G8939 — Pain assessment documented as positive, follow-up plan not documented, documentation the patient is not eligible at the time of the encounter
- G8940 — Screening for depression documented as positive, a follow-up plan not completed, documented reason