G9753 HCPCS Level II Code: Documentation of medical reason for not conducting a search for dicom format images for prior patient ct imaging studies completed at non-affiliated external healthcare facilities or entities within…
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Doc no dicom, ct other fac
- 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 G9753 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)
- 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]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9734 — Patient refused to participate[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9735 — Patient unable to complete the shoulder 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]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9736 — Patient refused to participate[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9737 — Patient unable to complete the elbow/wrist/hand 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]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9738 — Patient refused to participate[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- 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 proxy is not available[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9740 — Hospice services given to patient any time during the measurement period[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 setDocumentation of medical reason for not conducting a search for dicom format images for prior patient ct imaging studies completed at non-affiliated external healthcare facilities or entities within the past 12 months that are available through a secure, authorized, media-free, shared archive (e.g., trauma, acute myocardial infarction, stroke, aortic aneurysm where time is of the essence)
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9753 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- 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
- G9752 — Emergency surgery
- G9754 — A finding of an incidental pulmonary nodule
- G9755 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for not including a recommended interval and modality for follow-up or for no follow-up, and source of recommendations (e.g., patients with unexplained fever,…
- G9756 — Surgical procedures that included the use of silicone oil
- G9757 — Surgical procedures that included the use of silicone oil
- G9758 — Patient in hospice at any time during the measurement period