G9189 HCPCS Level II Code: Beta-blocker therapy prescribed or currently being taken
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Beta pres or already taking
- 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, 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.
Contextual Map
Every relationship of G9189 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)
- G9148 — National committee for quality assurance - level 1 medical home[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9149 — National committee for quality assurance - level 2 medical home[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9150 — National committee for quality assurance - level 3 medical home[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9151 — Mapcp demonstration - state provided services[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9152 — Mapcp demonstration - community health teams[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9153 — Mapcp demonstration - physician incentive pool[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9156 — Evaluation for wheelchair requiring face to face visit with physician[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9157 — Transesophageal doppler measurement of cardiac output (including probe placement, image acquisition, and interpretation per course of treatment) for monitoring purposes[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- and 32 more
Change history
- January 1, 2014 — 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
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Change history
- January 1, 2014Added to the code setBeta-blocker therapy prescribed or currently being taken
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9189 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G9175 — Other speech language pathology functional limitation, projected goal status at therapy episode outset, at reporting intervals, and at discharge or to end reporting
- G9176 — Other speech language pathology functional limitation, discharge status at discharge from therapy or to end reporting
- G9186 — Motor speech functional limitation, projected goal status at therapy episode outset, at reporting intervals, and at discharge or to end reporting
- G9187 — Bundled payments for care improvement initiative home visit for patient assessment performed by a qualified health care professional for individuals not considered homebound including, but not…
- G9188 — Beta-blocker therapy not prescribed, reason not given
- G9190 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for not prescribing beta-blocker therapy (eg, allergy, intolerance, other medical reasons)
- G9191 — Documentation of patient reason(s) for not prescribing beta-blocker therapy (eg, patient declined, other patient reasons)
- G9192 — Documentation of system reason(s) for not prescribing beta-blocker therapy (eg, other reasons attributable to the health care system)
- G9193 — Clinician documented that patient with a diagnosis of major depression was not an eligible candidate for antidepressant medication treatment or patient did not have a diagnosis of major depression
- G9194 — Patient with a diagnosis of major depression documented as being treated with antidepressant medication during the entire 180 day (6 month) continuation treatment phase