G9281 HCPCS Level II Code: Screening performed and documentation that vaccination not indicated/patient refusal
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Pne scrn done doc not ind
- 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 G9281 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)
- G9259 — Documentation of patient survival and absence of stroke following cas[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9260 — Documentation of patient death following cea[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9261 — Documentation of patient survival and absence of stroke following cea[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9262 — Documentation of patient death in the hospital following endovascular aaa repair[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9263 — Documentation of patient discharged alive following endovascular aaa repair[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9264 — Documentation of patient receiving maintenance hemodialysis for greater than or equal to 90 days with a catheter for documented reasons (e.g., other medical reasons, patient declined arteriovenous fistula (avf)/arteriovenous graft (avg), other patient reasons)[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9265 — Patient receiving maintenance hemodialysis for greater than or equal to 90 days with a catheter as the mode of vascular access[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9266 — Patient receiving maintenance hemodialysis for greater than or equal to 90 days without a catheter as the mode of vascular access[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
- Comparisons, relationships and the contextual map MedCoder structured relationship
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Change history
- January 1, 2014Added to the code setScreening performed and documentation that vaccination not indicated/patient refusal
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9281 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G9276 — Documentation that patient is a current tobacco user
- G9277 — Documentation that the patient is on daily aspirin or anti-platelet or has documentation of a valid contraindication or exception to aspirin/anti-platelet; contraindications/exceptions include…
- G9278 — Documentation that the patient is not on daily aspirin or anti-platelet regimen
- G9279 — Pneumococcal screening performed and documentation of vaccination received prior to discharge
- G9280 — Pneumococcal vaccination not administered prior to discharge, reason not specified
- G9282 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for not reporting the histological type or nsclc-nos classification with an explanation (e.g., biopsy taken for other purposes in a patient with a history of…
- G9283 — Non small cell lung cancer biopsy and cytology specimen report documents classification into specific histologic type or classified as nsclc-nos with an explanation
- G9284 — Non small cell lung cancer biopsy and cytology specimen report does not document classification into specific histologic type or classified as nsclc-nos with an explanation
- G9285 — Specimen site other than anatomic location of lung or is not classified as non small cell lung cancer
- G9286 — Antibiotic regimen prescribed within 10 days after onset of symptoms