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G0549

Phone/inter for treat>31m

Interprofessional telephone/internet/electronic health record assessment and management service provided by a practitioner in a specialty whose covered services are limited by statute to services for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, including a verbal and written report to the patient's treating/requesting practitioner; 31 or more minutes of medical consultative discussion and review

Code system
HCPCS Level II
Status
Active
Billable
Yes
In effect from
2025-01-01
Request
curl https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/codes/hcpcs/G0549 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
200 OK · application/json
{
  "data": {
    "code": "G0549",
    "parent": null,
    "status": "active",
    "system": "hcpcs",
    "display": "Phone/inter for treat>31m",
    "billable": true,
    "attributes": {
      "betos": "M5D",
      "coverage": "C",
      "action_code": "N",
      "type_of_service": "1",
      "pricing_indicator": "13",
      "action_effective_date": "2025-01-01"
    },
    "description": "Interprofessional telephone/internet/electronic health record assessment and management service provided by a practitioner in a specialty whose covered services are limited by statute to services for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, including a verbal and written report to the patient's treating/requesting practitioner; 31 or more minutes of medical consultative discussion and review",
    "replaced_by": [],
    "effective_end": null,
    "effective_start": "2025-01-01",
    "care_categories": [
      "doctor-visits"
    ],
    "care_category_details": [
      {
        "slug": "doctor-visits",
        "name": "Doctor and clinic visits",
        "confidence": 0.9,
        "derivation": "source_stated",
        "evidence": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.cms.gov/medicare/coding-billing/healthcare-common-procedure-system/quarterly-update",
            "anchor": "HCPCS Level II BETOS type of service M5D"
          }
        ],
        "as_of": "2026-10-01T00:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "cms-hcpcs",
    "data_version": "2026-10"
  }
}

CMS attributes

G0549 in the HCPCS file

betos
M5D
coverage
C
action code
N
type of service
1
pricing indicator
13
action effective date
2025-01-01

Change history

Lifecycle

G0549 has been in effect since 2025-01-01. 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 G0549 from code or an agent

curl
curl https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/codes/hcpcs/G0549 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
MCP prompt
Using the healthcare.dev MCP server, look up HCPCS Level II code G0549. 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.