G9311 HCPCS Level II Code: No surgical site infection
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: No surg site infection
- 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 G9311 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)
- G9300 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for not completely infusing the prophylactic antibiotic prior to the inflation of the proximal tourniquet (e.g., a tourniquet was not used)[Sibling]
- G9301 — Patients who had the prophylactic antibiotic completely infused prior to the inflation of the proximal tourniquet[Sibling]
- G9302 — Prophylactic antibiotic not completely infused prior to the inflation of the proximal tourniquet, reason not given[Sibling]
- G9303 — Operative report does not identify the prosthetic implant specifications including the prosthetic implant manufacturer, the brand name of the prosthetic implant and the size of each prosthetic implant, reason not given[Sibling]
- G9304 — Operative report identifies the prosthetic implant specifications including the prosthetic implant manufacturer, the brand name of the prosthetic implant and the size of each prosthetic implant[Sibling]
- G9305 — Intervention for presence of leak of endoluminal contents through an anastomosis not required[Sibling]
- G9306 — Intervention for presence of leak of endoluminal contents through an anastomosis required[Sibling]
- G9307 — No return to the operating room for a surgical procedure, for complications of the principal operative procedure, within 30 days of the principal operative procedure[Sibling]
- and 32 more
Change history
- January 1, 2014 — 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, 2014Added to the code setNo surgical site infection
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9311 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G9306 — Intervention for presence of leak of endoluminal contents through an anastomosis required
- G9307 — No return to the operating room for a surgical procedure, for complications of the principal operative procedure, within 30 days of the principal operative procedure
- G9308 — Unplanned return to the operating room for a surgical procedure, for complications of the principal operative procedure, within 30 days of the principal operative procedure
- G9309 — No unplanned hospital readmission within 30 days of principal procedure
- G9310 — Unplanned hospital readmission within 30 days of principal procedure
- G9312 — Surgical site infection
- G9313 — Amoxicillin, with or without clavulanate, not prescribed as first line antibiotic at the time of diagnosis for documented reason
- G9314 — Amoxicillin, with or without clavulanate, not prescribed as first line antibiotic at the time of diagnosis, reason not given
- G9315 — Amoxicillin, with or without clavulanate, prescribed as a first line antibiotic at the time of diagnosis
- G9316 — Documentation of patient-specific risk assessment with a risk calculator based on multi-institutional clinical data, the specific risk calculator used, and communication of risk assessment from risk…