G9715 HCPCS Level II Code: Patients who use hospice services any time during the measurement period
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Pt w/hosp anytime msmt per
- 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, 2024
- Terminated: December 31, 2023
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, 2024.
Contextual Map
Every relationship of G9715 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)
- G9700 — Patients who use hospice services any time during the measurement period[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9701 — Children who are taking antibiotics in the 30 days prior to the date of the encounter during which the diagnosis was established[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9702 — Patients who use hospice services any time during the measurement period[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9703 — Episodes where the patient is taking antibiotics (table 1) in the 30 days prior to the episode date[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9704 — Ajcc breast cancer stage i: t1 mic or t1a documented[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9705 — Ajcc breast cancer stage i: t1b (tumor > 0.5 cm but <= 1 cm in greatest dimension) documented[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9706 — Low (or very low) risk of recurrence, prostate cancer[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9707 — Patient received hospice services any time during the measurement period[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- and 32 more
Change history (2)
- January 1, 2024 — 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
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Change history
- January 1, 2024Removed from the code setPatients who use hospice services any time during the measurement period
- January 1, 2017Added to the code setPatients who use hospice services any time during the measurement period
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9715 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G9710 — Patient was provided hospice services any time during the measurement period
- G9711 — Patients with a diagnosis or past history of total colectomy or colorectal cancer
- G9712 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for prescribing or dispensing antibiotic (e.g., intestinal infection, pertussis, bacterial infection, lyme disease, otitis media, acute sinusitis, acute…
- G9713 — Patients who use hospice services any time during the measurement period
- G9714 — Patient is using hospice services any time during the measurement period
- G9716 — Bmi is documented as being outside of normal parameters, follow-up plan is not completed for documented medical reason
- G9717 — Documentation stating the patient has had a diagnosis of bipolar disorder
- G9718 — Hospice services for patient provided any time during the measurement period
- G9719 — Patient is not ambulatory, bed ridden, immobile, confined to chair, wheelchair bound, dependent on helper pushing wheelchair, independent in wheelchair or minimal help in wheelchair
- G9720 — Hospice services for patient occurred any time during the measurement period