G9744 HCPCS Level II Code: Patient not eligible due to active diagnosis of hypertension
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Pt not eli d/t act dig htn
- 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, 2018
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 G9744 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)
- G9724 — Patients who had documentation of use of anticoagulant medications overlapping the measurement year[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9725 — Patients who use hospice services any time during the measurement period[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9726 — Patient refused to participate[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- 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 available[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9728 — Patient refused to participate[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- 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 available[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9730 — Patient refused to participate[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- 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 available[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- and 32 more
Change history
- January 1, 2017 — 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, 2017Added to the code setPatient not eligible due to active diagnosis of hypertension
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9744 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G9739 — Patient unable to complete the general orthopedic fs prom at initial evaluation and/or discharge due to blindness, illiteracy, severe mental incapacity or language incompatibility and an adequate…
- G9740 — Hospice services given to patient any time during the measurement period
- G9741 — Patients who use hospice services any time during the measurement period
- G9742 — Psychiatric symptoms assessed
- G9743 — Psychiatric symptoms not assessed, reason not otherwise specified
- G9745 — Documented reason for not screening or recommending a follow-up for high blood pressure
- G9746 — Patient has mitral stenosis or prosthetic heart valves or patient has transient or reversible cause of af (e.g., pneumonia, hyperthyroidism, pregnancy, cardiac surgery)
- G9747 — Patient is undergoing palliative dialysis with a catheter
- G9748 — Patient approved by a qualified transplant program and scheduled to receive a living donor kidney transplant
- G9749 — Patient is undergoing palliative dialysis with a catheter