G9728 HCPCS Level II Code: Patient refused to participate
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Refused to participate
- 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, 2017
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 G9728 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)
- G9708 — Women who had a bilateral mastectomy or who have a history of a bilateral mastectomy or for whom there is evidence of a right and a left unilateral mastectomy[Sibling]
- G9709 — Hospice services used by patient any time during the measurement period[Sibling]
- G9710 — Patient was provided hospice services any time during the measurement period[Sibling]
- G9711 — Patients with a diagnosis or past history of total colectomy or colorectal cancer[Sibling]
- 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 pharyngitis, acute tonsillitis, chronic sinusitis, infection of the pharynx/larynx/tonsils/adenoids, prostatitis, cellulitis/ mastoiditis/bone infections, acute lymphadenitis, impetigo, skin staph infections, pneumonia, gonococcal infections/venereal disease (syphilis, chlamydia, inflammatory diseases [female reproductive organs]), infections of the kidney, cystitis/uti, acne, hiv disease/asymptomatic hiv, cystic fibrosis, disorders of the immune system, malignancy neoplasms, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, bronchiectasis, extrinsic allergic alveolitis, chronic airway obstruction, chronic obstructive asthma, pneumoconiosis and other lung disease due to external agents, other diseases of the respiratory system, and tuberculosis[Sibling]
- G9713 — Patients who use hospice services any time during the measurement period[Sibling]
- G9714 — Patient is using hospice services any time during the measurement period[Sibling]
- G9715 — Patients who use hospice services any time during the measurement period[Sibling]
- and 32 more
Change history
- January 1, 2017 — 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, 2017Added to the code setPatient refused to participate
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9728 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G9723 — Hospice services for patient received any time during the measurement period
- G9724 — Patients who had documentation of use of anticoagulant medications overlapping the measurement year
- G9725 — Patients who use hospice services any time during the measurement period
- G9726 — Patient refused to participate
- G9727 — Patient unable to complete the lepf prom at initial evaluation and/or discharge due to blindness, illiteracy, severe mental incapacity or language incompatibility and an adequate proxy is not…
- G9729 — Patient unable to complete the lepf prom at initial evaluation and/or discharge due to blindness, illiteracy, severe mental incapacity or language incompatibility and an adequate proxy is not…
- G9730 — Patient refused to participate
- G9731 — Patient unable to complete the lepf prom at initial evaluation and/or discharge due to blindness, illiteracy, severe mental incapacity or language incompatibility and an adequate proxy is not…
- G9732 — Patient refused to participate
- G9733 — Patient unable to complete the low back fs prom at initial evaluation and/or discharge due to blindness, illiteracy, severe mental incapacity or language incompatibility and an adequate proxy is not…