H0042 HCPCS Level II Code: Foster care, child, non-therapeutic, per month
Medicare Coverage & Payment
- CMS short descriptor: Fos c chld non-ther per mon
- Medicare coverage: Not payable by Medicare (CMS coverage code I)
- Payment category: Service not separately priced (pricing indicator 00)
- BETOS: Z2 — Undefined codes
- Last CMS action effective: January 1, 2003
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 H0042 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)
- H0013 — Alcohol and/or drug services; acute detoxification (residential addiction program outpatient)[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- H0014 — Alcohol and/or drug services; ambulatory detoxification[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- H0015 — Alcohol and/or drug services; intensive outpatient (treatment program that operates at least 3 hours/day and at least 3 days/week and is based on an individualized treatment plan), including assessment, counseling; crisis intervention, and activity therapies or education[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- H0016 — Alcohol and/or drug services; medical/somatic (medical intervention in ambulatory setting)[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- H0017 — Behavioral health; residential (hospital residential treatment program), without room and board, per diem[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- H0018 — Behavioral health; short-term residential (non-hospital residential treatment program), without room and board, per diem[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- H0019 — Behavioral health; long-term residential (non-medical, non-acute care in a residential treatment program where stay is typically longer than 30 days), without room and board, per diem[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- H0020 — Alcohol and/or drug services; methadone administration and/or service (provision of the drug by a licensed program)[Sibling]— CMS HCPCS Level II code set
- and 32 more
Change history
- January 1, 2003 — Added to the code set [Change history]— CMS release files (code change ledger)
Sources for this page
Codes, titles, notes, index terms and mappings on this page are transcribed from the datasets below. Relationships MedCoder computed and text MedCoder wrote are labelled where they appear.
- 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
- Computed by MedCoder from the tabular notes and tables above; every derived relationship is marked as derived where it appears
- Summary and FAQ answers MedCoder explanation
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Change history
- January 1, 2003Added to the code setFoster care, child, non-therapeutic, per month
Nearest Codes in This Family
Official HCPCS Level II classifications closest to H0042 in its code family, with their registry titles.
- H0037 — Community psychiatric supportive treatment program, per diem
- H0038 — Self-help/peer services, per 15 minutes
- H0039 — Assertive community treatment, face-to-face, per 15 minutes
- H0040 — Assertive community treatment program, per diem
- H0041 — Foster care, child, non-therapeutic, per diem
- H0043 — Supported housing, per diem
- H0044 — Supported housing, per month
- H0045 — Respite care services, not in the home, per diem
- H0046 — Mental health services, not otherwise specified
- H0047 — Alcohol and/or other drug abuse services, not otherwise specified