G9239 – Documentation of reasons for patient initiating maintenance hemodialysis with a catheter as the mode of vascular access (e.g., patient has a maturing arteriovenous fistula (avf)/arteriovenous graft (avg), time-limited trial of hemodialysis, other medical reasons, patient declined avf/avg, other patient reasons, patient followed by reporting nephrologist for fewer than 90 days, other system reasons)

Long description

Documentation of reasons for patient initiating maintenance hemodialysis with a catheter as the mode of vascular access (e.g., patient has a maturing arteriovenous fistula (avf)/arteriovenous graft (avg), time-limited trial of hemodialysis, other medical reasons, patient declined avf/avg, other patient reasons, patient followed by reporting nephrologist for fewer than 90 days, other system reasons)

Short description

Doc rsn hemod & cath acc

Pricing indicator

00 Not separately priced by Part B (bundled, not covered or Part A only)

Medicare coverage

C Carrier judgment – coverage decided by the Medicare contractor

BETOS category

M5B Specialist - psychiatry

Added

January 1, 2014

Last change

January 1, 2021 – No change

Termination date

December 31, 2020

Nearby G codes

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• G9233 – All quality actions for the applicable measures in the total knee replacement measures group have been performed for this patient
• G9234 – I intend to report the total knee replacement measures group
• G9235 – All quality actions for the applicable measures in the general surgery measures group have been performed for this patient
• G9236 – All quality actions for the applicable measures in the optimizing patient exposure to ionizing radiation measures group have been performed for this patient
• G9237 – I intend to report the general surgery measures group
• G9238 – I intend to report the optimizing patient exposure to ionizing radiation measures group
• G9240 – Patient whose mode of vascular access is a catheter at the time maintenance hemodialysis is initiated
• G9241 – Patient whose mode of vascular access is not a catheter at the time maintenance hemodialysis is initiated
• G9242 – Documentation of viral load equal to or greater than 200 copies/ml or viral load not performed
• G9243 – Documentation of viral load less than 200 copies/ml
• G9244 – Antiretroviral thereapy not prescribed
• G9245 – Antiretroviral therapy prescribed
• G9246 – Patient did not have two eligible encounters at least 90 days apart or one eligible encounter and one hiv viral load test at least 90 days apart
• G9247 – Patient had two eligible encounters at least 90 days apart or one eligible encounter and one hiv viral load test at least 90 days apart