G9602 HCPCS Level II Code: Patient not discharged to home by post-operative day #7
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Pt no dchg home postop day 7
- Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment (CMS coverage code C)
- Payment category: Service not separately priced (pricing indicator 00)
- BETOS: Z2 — Undefined codes
- 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 G9602 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)
- G9600 — Symptomatic aaas that required urgent/emergent (non-elective) repair[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9601 — Patient discharge to home no later than post-operative day #7[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9603 — Patient survey score improved from baseline following treatment[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9604 — Patient survey results not available[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9605 — Patient survey score did not improve from baseline following treatment[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9606 — Intraoperative cystoscopy performed to evaluate for lower tract injury[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9607 — Documented medical reasons for not performing intraoperative cystoscopy (e.g., urethral pathology precluding cystoscopy, any patient who has a congenital or acquired absence of the urethra) or in the case of patient death[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9608 — Intraoperative cystoscopy not performed to evaluate for lower tract injury[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
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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
- Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
- Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder explanation
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Change history
- January 1, 2021Removed from the code setPatient not discharged to home by post-operative day #7
- January 1, 2016Added to the code setPatient not discharged to home by post-operative day #7
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9602 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G9600 — Symptomatic aaas that required urgent/emergent (non-elective) repair
- G9601 — Patient discharge to home no later than post-operative day #7
- G9603 — Patient survey score improved from baseline following treatment
- G9604 — Patient survey results not available
- G9605 — Patient survey score did not improve from baseline following treatment
- G9606 — Intraoperative cystoscopy performed to evaluate for lower tract injury
- G9607 — Documented medical reasons for not performing intraoperative cystoscopy (e.g., urethral pathology precluding cystoscopy, any patient who has a congenital or acquired absence of the urethra) or in the…
- G9608 — Intraoperative cystoscopy not performed to evaluate for lower tract injury
- G9609 — Documentation of an order for anti-platelet agents
- G9610 — Documentation of medical reason(s) in the patient's record for not ordering anti-platelet agents