G9930 HCPCS Level II Code: Patients who are receiving comfort care only
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Com care
- 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 G9930 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)
- G9910 — Patients age 66 or older in institutional special needs plans (snp) or residing in long-term care with pos code 32, 33, 34, 54 or 56 for more than 90 consecutive days during the measurement period[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9911 — Clinically node negative (t1n0m0 or t2n0m0) invasive breast cancer before or after neoadjuvant systemic therapy[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9912 — Hepatitis b virus (hbv) status assessed and results interpreted prior to initiating anti-tnf (tumor necrosis factor) therapy[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9913 — Hepatitis b virus (hbv) status not assessed and results interpreted prior to initiating anti-tnf (tumor necrosis factor) therapy, reason not otherwise specified[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9914 — Patient initiated an anti-tnf agent[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9915 — No record of hbv results documented[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9916 — Functional status performed once in the last 12 months[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- G9917 — Documentation of advanced stage dementia and caregiver knowledge is limited[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 setPatients who are receiving comfort care only
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9930 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- G9925 — Safety concerns screening not provided, reason not otherwise specified
- G9926 — Safety concerns screening positive screen is without provision of mitigation recommendations, including but not limited to referral to other resources
- G9927 — Documentation of system reason(s) for not prescribing an fda-approved anticoagulation due to patient being currently enrolled in a clinical trial related to af/atrial flutter treatment
- G9928 — Fda-approved anticoagulant not prescribed, reason not given
- G9929 — Patient with transient or reversible cause of af (e.g., pneumonia, hyperthyroidism, pregnancy, cardiac surgery)
- G9931 — Documentation of cha2ds2-vasc risk score of 0 or 1 for men; or 0, 1, or 2 for women
- G9932 — Documentation of patient reason(s) for not having records of negative or managed positive tb screen (e.g., patient does not return for mantoux (ppd) skin test evaluation)
- G9933 — Adenoma(s) or colorectal cancer detected during screening colonoscopy
- G9934 — Documentation that neoplasm detected is only diagnosed as traditional serrated adenoma, sessile serrated polyp, or sessile serrated adenoma
- G9935 — Adenoma(s) or colorectal cancer not detected during screening colonoscopy