G9868 HCPCS Level II Code: Receipt and analysis of remote, asynchronous images for dermatologic and/or ophthalmologic evaluation, for use only in a medicare-approved cmmi model, less than 10 minutes
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Cmmi asyntelehealth <10min
- Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment (CMS coverage code C)
- Pricing indicator: 13
- BETOS: M5D — Specialist - other
- Last CMS action effective: April 1, 2021
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 G9868 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)
- G9843 — Ras (kras or nras) gene mutation[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9844 — Patient did not receive anti-egfr monoclonal antibody therapy[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9845 — Patient received anti-egfr monoclonal antibody therapy[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9846 — Patients who died from cancer[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9847 — Patient received systemic cancer-directed therapy in the last 14 days of life[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9848 — Patient did not receive systemic cancer-directed therapy in the last 14 days of life[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9849 — Patients who died from cancer[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9850 — Patient had more than one emergency department visit in the last 30 days of life[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- and 32 more
Change history
- January 1, 2018 — 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, 2018Added to the code setReceipt and analysis of remote, asynchronous images for dermatologic and/or ophthalmologic evaluation, for use only in a medicare-approved cmmi model, less than 10 minutes
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9868 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G9858 — Patient enrolled in hospice
- G9859 — Patients who died from cancer
- G9860 — Patient spent less than three days in hospice care
- G9861 — Patient spent greater than or equal to three days in hospice care
- G9862 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for not recommending at least a 10 year follow-up interval (e.g., inadequate prep, familial or personal history of colonic polyps, patient had no adenoma and age is…
- G9869 — Receipt and analysis of remote, asynchronous images for dermatologic and/or ophthalmologic evaluation, for use only in a medicare-approved cmmi model, 10-20 minutes
- G9870 — Receipt and analysis of remote, asynchronous images for dermatologic and/or ophthalmologic evaluation, for use only in a medicare-approved cmmi model, more than 20 minutes
- G9871 — Behavioral counseling for diabetes prevention, online, 60 minutes
- G9873 — First medicare diabetes prevention program (mdpp) core session was attended by an mdpp beneficiary under the mdpp expanded model (em). a core session is an mdpp service that: (1) is furnished by an…
- G9874 — Four total medicare diabetes prevention program (mdpp) core sessions were attended by an mdpp beneficiary under the mdpp expanded model (em). a core session is an mdpp service that: (1) is furnished…