G9746 HCPCS Level II Code: Patient has mitral stenosis or prosthetic heart valves or patient has transient or reversible cause of af (e.g., pneumonia, hyperthyroidism, pregnancy, cardiac surgery)
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Mit sten, valve or trans af
- 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 G9746 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)
- G9726 — Patient refused to participate[Sibling]
- 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]
- G9728 — Patient refused to participate[Sibling]
- 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]
- G9730 — Patient refused to participate[Sibling]
- 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]
- G9732 — Patient refused to participate[Sibling]
- 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 available[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 has mitral stenosis or prosthetic heart valves or patient has transient or reversible cause of af (e.g., pneumonia, hyperthyroidism, pregnancy, cardiac surgery)
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9746 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- 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
- G9744 — Patient not eligible due to active diagnosis of hypertension
- G9745 — Documented reason for not screening or recommending a follow-up for high blood pressure
- 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
- G9750 — Patient approved by a qualified transplant program and scheduled to receive a living donor kidney transplant
- G9751 — Patient died at any time during the 24-month measurement period