G9256 HCPCS Level II Code: Documentation of patient death following cas
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Doc of pat death after cas
- 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, 2021
- Terminated: December 31, 2020
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, 2021.
Contextual Map
Every relationship of G9256 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)
- G9236 — All quality actions for the applicable measures in the optimizing patient exposure to ionizing radiation measures group have been performed for this patient[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9237 — I intend to report the general surgery measures group[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9238 — I intend to report the optimizing patient exposure to ionizing radiation measures group[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9239 — Documentation of reasons for patient initiating maintenance hemodialysis with a catheter as the mode of vascular access (e.g., patient has a maturing arteriovenous fistula (avf)/arteriovenous graft (avg), time-limited trial of hemodialysis, other medical reasons, patient declined avf/avg, other patient reasons, patient followed by reporting nephrologist for fewer than 90 days, other system reasons)[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9240 — Patient whose mode of vascular access is a catheter at the time maintenance hemodialysis is initiated[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9241 — Patient whose mode of vascular access is not a catheter at the time maintenance hemodialysis is initiated[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9242 — Documentation of viral load equal to or greater than 200 copies/ml or viral load not performed[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9243 — Documentation of viral load less than 200 copies/ml[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- and 32 more
Change history (2)
- January 1, 2021 — Removed from the code set [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger)
- and 1 more
Sources for this page
Codes, titles, notes, index terms and mappings on this page are transcribed from the datasets below. Relationships MedCoder computed and text MedCoder wrote are labelled where they appear.
- 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, 2021Removed from the code setDocumentation of patient death following cas
- January 1, 2014Added to the code setDocumentation of patient death following cas
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9256 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G9251 — Documentation of patient with pain not brought to a comfortable level within 48 hours from initial assessment
- G9252 — Adenoma(s) or other neoplasm detected during screening colonoscopy
- G9253 — Adenoma(s) or other neoplasm not detected during screening colonoscopy
- G9254 — Documentation of patient discharged to home later than post-operative day 2 following cea or cas
- G9255 — Documentation of patient discharged to home no later than post operative day 2 following cea or cas
- G9257 — Documentation of patient stroke following cas
- G9258 — Documentation of patient stroke following cea
- G9259 — Documentation of patient survival and absence of stroke following cas
- G9260 — Documentation of patient death following cea
- G9261 — Documentation of patient survival and absence of stroke following cea