G9943 HCPCS Level II Code: Back pain was not measured by the visual analog scale (vas) or numeric pain scale at three months (6 - 20 weeks) postoperatively

Contextual Map

Every relationship of G9943 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)

• G9923 — Safety concerns screen provided and negative[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G9924 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for not providing safety concerns screen or for not providing recommendations, orders or referrals for positive screen (e.g., patient in palliative care, other medical reason)[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G9925 — Safety concerns screening not provided, reason not otherwise specified[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G9926 — Safety concerns screening positive screen is without provision of mitigation recommendations, including but not limited to referral to other resources[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• 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[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G9928 — Fda-approved anticoagulant not prescribed, reason not given[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G9929 — Patient with transient or reversible cause of af (e.g., pneumonia, hyperthyroidism, pregnancy, cardiac surgery)[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
• G9930 — Patients who are receiving comfort care only[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)

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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

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Nearest Codes in This Family

Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to G9943 in its code family, with their registry titles.

• G9938 — Patients aged 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 six months prior to…
• G9939 — Pathologists/dermatopathologists is the same clinician who performed the biopsy
• G9940 — Documentation of medical reason(s) for not on a statin (e.g., pregnancy, in vitro fertilization, clomiphene rx, esrd, cirrhosis, muscular pain and disease during the measurement period or prior year)
• G9941 — Back pain was measured by the visual analog scale (vas) within three months preoperatively and at three months (6 - 20 weeks) postoperatively
• G9942 — Patient had any additional spine procedures performed on the same date as the lumbar discectomy/laminectomy
• G9944 — Back pain was measured by the visual analog scale (vas) within three months preoperatively and at one year (9 to 15 months) postoperatively
• G9945 — Patient had cancer, acute fracture or infection related to the lumbar spine or patient had neuromuscular, idiopathic or congenital lumbar scoliosis
• G9946 — Back pain was not measured by the visual analog scale (vas) or numeric pain scale at one year (9 to 15 months) postoperatively
• G9947 — Leg pain was measured by the visual analog scale (vas) within three months preoperatively and at three months (6 to 20 weeks) postoperatively
• G9948 — Patient had any additional spine procedures performed on the same date as the lumbar discectomy/laminectomy