G9164 HCPCS Level II Code: Spoken language expression functional limitation, discharge status at discharge from therapy or to end reporting
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Lang express d/c status
- Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment (CMS coverage code C)
- Payment category: Service not separately priced (pricing indicator 00)
- BETOS: M5D — Specialist - other
- Last CMS action effective: January 1, 2020
- Terminated: December 31, 2019
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, 2020.
Contextual Map
Every relationship of G9164 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)
- G9137 — Oncology; disease status; non-hodgkin's lymphoma, any cellular classification; relapsed/refractory (for use in a medicare-approved demonstration project)[Sibling]
- G9138 — Oncology; disease status; non-hodgkin's lymphoma, any cellular classification; diagnostic evaluation, stage not determined, evaluation of possible relapse or non-response to therapy, or not listed (for use in a medicare-approved demonstration project)[Sibling]
- G9139 — Oncology; disease status; chronic myelogenous leukemia, limited to philadelphia chromosome positive and/or bcr-abl positive; extent of disease unknown, staging in progress, not listed (for use in a medicare-approved demonstration project)[Sibling]
- G9140 — Frontier extended stay clinic demonstration; for a patient stay in a clinic approved for the cms demonstration project; the following measures should be present: the stay must be equal to or greater than 4 hours; weather or other conditions must prevent transfer or the case falls into a category of monitoring and observation cases that are permitted by the rules of the demonstration; there is a maximum frontier extended stay clinic (fesc) visit of 48 hours, except in the case when weather or other conditions prevent transfer; payment is made on each period up to 4 hours, after the first 4 hours[Sibling]
- G9143 — Warfarin responsiveness testing by genetic technique using any method, any number of specimen(s)[Sibling]
- G9147 — Outpatient intravenous insulin treatment (oivit) either pulsatile or continuous, by any means, guided by the results of measurements for: respiratory quotient; and/or, urine urea nitrogen (uun); and/or, arterial, venous or capillary glucose; and/or potassium concentration[Sibling]
- G9148 — National committee for quality assurance - level 1 medical home[Sibling]
- G9149 — National committee for quality assurance - level 2 medical home[Sibling]
- and 32 more
Change history (2)
- January 1, 2020 — 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, 2020Removed from the code setSpoken language expression functional limitation, discharge status at discharge from therapy or to end reporting
- January 1, 2013Added to the code setSpoken language expression functional limitation, discharge status at discharge from therapy or to end reporting
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9164 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- 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
- G9162 — Spoken language expression functional limitation, current status at therapy episode outset and at reporting intervals
- G9163 — Spoken language expression functional limitation, projected goal status at therapy episode outset, at reporting intervals, and at discharge or to end reporting
- G9165 — Attention functional limitation, current status at therapy episode outset and at reporting intervals
- G9166 — Attention functional limitation, projected goal status at therapy episode outset, at reporting intervals, and at discharge or to end reporting
- G9167 — Attention functional limitation, discharge status at discharge from therapy or to end reporting
- G9168 — Memory functional limitation, current status at therapy episode outset and at reporting intervals
- G9169 — Memory functional limitation, projected goal status at therapy episode outset, at reporting intervals, and at discharge or to end reporting