G9887 HCPCS Level II Code: Behavioral counseling for diabetes prevention, distance learning, 60 minutes
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Distance learning attendance
- Medicare coverage: Carrier judgment (CMS coverage code C)
- Payment category: Service not separately priced (pricing indicator 00)
- BETOS: Y1 — Other - Medicare fee schedule
- Last CMS action effective: January 1, 2024
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 G9887 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)
- G9852 — Patients who died from cancer[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9853 — Patient admitted to the icu in the last 30 days of life[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9854 — Patient was not admitted to the icu in the last 30 days of life[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9855 — Patients who died from cancer[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9856 — Patient was not admitted to hospice[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9857 — Patient admitted to hospice[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9858 — Patient enrolled in hospice[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9859 — Patients who died from cancer[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- and 32 more
Change history
- January 1, 2024 — 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, 2024Added to the code setBehavioral counseling for diabetes prevention, distance learning, 60 minutes
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9887 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G9882 — Two medicare diabetes prevention program (mdpp) ongoing maintenance sessions (ms) were attended by an mdpp beneficiary in months (mo) 13-15 under the mdpp expanded model (em). an ongoing maintenance…
- G9883 — Two medicare diabetes prevention program (mdpp) ongoing maintenance sessions (ms) were attended by an mdpp beneficiary in months (mo) 16-18 under the mdpp expanded model (em). an ongoing maintenance…
- G9884 — Two medicare diabetes prevention program (mdpp) ongoing maintenance sessions (ms) were attended by an mdpp beneficiary in months (mo) 19-21 under the mdpp expanded model (em). an ongoing maintenance…
- G9885 — Two medicare diabetes prevention program (mdpp) ongoing maintenance sessions (ms) were attended by an mdpp beneficiary in months (mo) 22-24 under the mdpp expanded model (em). an ongoing maintenance…
- G9886 — Behavioral counseling for diabetes prevention, in-person, group, 60 minutes
- G9888 — Maintenance 5% wl from baseline weight in months 7-12
- G9890 — Bridge payment: a one-time payment for the first medicare diabetes prevention program (mdpp) core session, core maintenance session, or ongoing maintenance session furnished by an mdpp supplier to an…
- G9891 — Mdpp session reported as a line-item on a claim for a payable mdpp expanded model (em) hcpcs code for a session furnished by the billing supplier under the mdpp expanded model and counting toward…
- G9892 — Documentation of patient reason(s) for not performing a dilated macular examination
- G9893 — Dilated macular exam was not performed, reason not otherwise specified