G9156 HCPCS Level II Code: Evaluation for wheelchair requiring face to face visit with physician
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Evaluation for wheelchair
- Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment (CMS coverage code C)
- Payment category: Service not separately priced (pricing indicator 00)
- BETOS: Z2 — Undefined codes
- Last CMS action effective: January 1, 2012
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 G9156 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)
- G9129 — Oncology; disease status; limited to multiple myeloma, systemic disease; stage ii or higher (for use in a medicare-approved demonstration project)[Sibling]
- G9130 — Oncology; disease status; limited to multiple myeloma, systemic disease; extent of disease unknown, staging in progress, or not listed (for use in a medicare-approved demonstration project)[Sibling]
- G9131 — Oncology; disease status; invasive female breast cancer (does not include ductal carcinoma in situ); adenocarcinoma as predominant cell type; extent of disease unknown, staging in progress, or not listed (for use in a medicare-approved demonstration project)[Sibling]
- G9132 — Oncology; disease status; prostate cancer, limited to adenocarcinoma; hormone-refractory/androgen-independent (e.g., rising psa on anti-androgen therapy or post-orchiectomy); clinical metastases (for use in a medicare-approved demonstration project)[Sibling]
- G9133 — Oncology; disease status; prostate cancer, limited to adenocarcinoma; hormone-responsive; clinical metastases or m1 at diagnosis (for use in a medicare-approved demonstration project)[Sibling]
- G9134 — Oncology; disease status; non-hodgkin's lymphoma, any cellular classification; stage i, ii at diagnosis, not relapsed, not refractory (for use in a medicare-approved demonstration project)[Sibling]
- G9135 — Oncology; disease status; non-hodgkin's lymphoma, any cellular classification; stage iii, iv, not relapsed, not refractory (for use in a medicare-approved demonstration project)[Sibling]
- G9136 — Oncology; disease status; non-hodgkin's lymphoma, transformed from original cellular diagnosis to a second cellular classification (for use in a medicare-approved demonstration project)[Sibling]
- and 32 more
Change history
- January 1, 2012 — Added to the code set [Change history]
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, 2012Added to the code setEvaluation for wheelchair requiring face to face visit with physician
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9156 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G9149 — National committee for quality assurance - level 2 medical home
- G9150 — National committee for quality assurance - level 3 medical home
- G9151 — Mapcp demonstration - state provided services
- G9152 — Mapcp demonstration - community health teams
- G9153 — Mapcp demonstration - physician incentive pool
- G9157 — Transesophageal doppler measurement of cardiac output (including probe placement, image acquisition, and interpretation per course of treatment) for monitoring purposes
- G9158 — Motor speech functional limitation, discharge status, at discharge from therapy or to end reporting
- G9159 — Spoken language comprehension functional limitation, current status at therapy episode outset and at reporting intervals
- G9160 — Spoken language comprehension functional limitation, projected goal status at therapy episode outset, at reporting intervals, and at discharge or to end reporting
- G9161 — Spoken language comprehension functional limitation, discharge status, at discharge from therapy or to end reporting