Lpn care ea 15min hh/hospice
Skilled services of a licensed practical nurse (lpn) for the observation and assessment of the patient's condition, each 15 minutes (the change in the patient's condition requires skilled nursing personnel to identify and evaluate the patient's need for possible modification of treatment in the home health or hospice setting)
curl https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/codes/hcpcs/G0494 \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
{
"data": {
"code": "G0494",
"parent": null,
"status": "active",
"system": "hcpcs",
"display": "Lpn care ea 15min hh/hospice",
"billable": true,
"attributes": {
"betos": "Y2",
"coverage": "C",
"action_code": "N",
"type_of_service": "1",
"pricing_indicator": "00",
"action_effective_date": "2017-01-01"
},
"description": "Skilled services of a licensed practical nurse (lpn) for the observation and assessment of the patient's condition, each 15 minutes (the change in the patient's condition requires skilled nursing personnel to identify and evaluate the patient's need for possible modification of treatment in the home health or hospice setting)",
"replaced_by": [],
"effective_end": null,
"effective_start": "2017-01-01",
"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 G0493-G0496"
}
],
"as_of": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}
]
},
"meta": {
"source": "cms-hcpcs",
"data_version": "2026-10"
}
}CMS attributes
Change history
G0494 has been in effect since 2017-01-01. 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
curl https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/codes/hcpcs/G0494 \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
Using the healthcare.dev MCP server, look up HCPCS Level II code G0494. 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.