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G0181

Home health care supervision

Physician or allowed practitioner supervision of a patient receiving medicare-covered services provided by a participating home health agency (patient not present) requiring complex and multidisciplinary care modalities involving regular physician or allowed practitioner development and/or revision of care plans

Code system
HCPCS Level II
Status
Active
Billable
Yes
In effect from
2001-01-01
Request
curl https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/codes/hcpcs/G0181 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
200 OK · application/json
{
  "data": {
    "code": "G0181",
    "parent": null,
    "status": "active",
    "system": "hcpcs",
    "display": "Home health care supervision",
    "billable": true,
    "attributes": {
      "betos": "Y1",
      "coverage": "C",
      "action_code": "N",
      "type_of_service": "1",
      "pricing_indicator": "11",
      "action_effective_date": "2020-03-01"
    },
    "description": "Physician or allowed practitioner supervision of a patient receiving medicare-covered services provided by a participating home health agency (patient not present) requiring complex and multidisciplinary care modalities involving regular physician or allowed practitioner development and/or revision of care plans",
    "replaced_by": [],
    "effective_end": null,
    "effective_start": "2001-01-01",
    "care_categories": [
      "home-health-and-personal-care"
    ],
    "care_category_details": [
      {
        "slug": "home-health-and-personal-care",
        "name": "Home health and personal care",
        "confidence": 0.95,
        "derivation": "source_stated",
        "evidence": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/coding-billing/healthcare-common-procedure-system/quarterly-update",
            "anchor": "HCPCS Level II range G0179-G0181"
          }
        ],
        "as_of": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "cms-hcpcs",
    "data_version": "2026-10"
  }
}

CMS attributes

G0181 in the HCPCS file

betos
Y1
coverage
C
action code
N
type of service
1
pricing indicator
11
action effective date
2020-03-01

Change history

Lifecycle

G0181 has been in effect since 2001-01-01. This page shows HCPCS Level II release 2026-10.

Add as_of=YYYY-MM-DD to the request to get this code exactly as it was on a past date. The change feed (GET /v1/changes) lists what each release added, changed or retired across the whole dataset; a per-code change list isn't published yet.

Use it

Look up G0181 from code or an agent

curl
curl https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/codes/hcpcs/G0181 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
MCP prompt
Using the healthcare.dev MCP server, look up HCPCS Level II code G0181. Tell me what it covers, whether it is active and since when, and any CMS attributes it has.

Source: CMS, release 2026-10. Public domain (D-series CDT codes excluded). Reference data, not medical or billing advice.