G8949 HCPCS Level II Code: Documentation of patient reason(s) for patient not receiving counseling for diet and physical activity (e.g., patient is not willing to discuss diet or exercise interventions to help control blood…
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Doc pt reas on counsel diet
- 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 G8949 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)
- G8928 — Adjuvant chemotherapy not prescribed or previously received, for documented reasons (e.g., medical co-morbidities, diagnosis date more than 5 years prior to the current visit date, patient's diagnosis date is within 120 days of the end of the 12 month reporting period, patient's cancer has metastasized, medical contraindication/allergy, poor performance status, other medical reasons, patient refusal, other patient reasons, patient is currently enrolled in a clinical trial that precludes prescription of chemotherapy, other system reasons)[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8929 — Adjuvant chemotherapy not prescribed or previously received, reason not given[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8930 — Assessment of depression severity at the initial evaluation[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8931 — Assessment of depression severity not documented, reason not given[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8932 — Suicide risk assessed at the initial evaluation[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8933 — Suicide risk not assessed at the initial evaluation, reason not given[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8934 — Current or prior left ventricular ejection fraction (lvef) <=40% or documentation of moderately or severely depressed left ventricular systolic function[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G8935 — Clinician prescribed angiotensin converting enzyme (ace) inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (arb) therapy[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
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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
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Change history
- January 1, 2015Removed from the code setDocumentation of patient reason(s) for patient not receiving counseling for diet and physical activity (e.g., patient is not willing to discuss diet or exercise interventions to help control blood pressure, or the patient said he/she refused to make these changes)
- January 1, 2013Added to the code setDocumentation of patient reason(s) for patient not receiving counseling for diet and physical activity (e.g., patient is not willing to discuss diet or exercise interventions to help control blood pressure, or the patient said he/she refused to make these changes)
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G8949 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G8943 — Ldl-c result not present or not within 12 months prior
- G8944 — Ajcc melanoma cancer stage 0 through iic melanoma
- G8946 — Minimally invasive biopsy method attempted but not diagnostic of breast cancer (e.g., high risk lesion of breast such as atypical ductal hyperplasia, lobular neoplasia, atypical lobular hyperplasia,…
- G8947 — One or more neuropsychiatric symptoms
- G8948 — No neuropsychiatric symptoms
- G8950 — Elevated or hypertensive blood pressure reading documented, and the indicated follow-up is documented
- G8951 — Pre-hypertensive or hypertensive blood pressure reading documented, indicated follow-up not documented, documentation the patient is not eligible
- G8952 — Elevated or hypertensive blood pressure reading documented, indicated follow-up not documented, reason not given
- G8953 — All quality actions for the applicable measures in the oncology measures group have been performed for this patient
- G8955 — Most recent assessment of adequacy of volume management documented