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G0560

Safety plan interven

Safety planning interventions, each 20 minutes personally performed by the billing practitioner, including assisting the patient in the identification of the following personalized elements of a safety plan: recognizing warning signs of an impending suicidal or substance use-related crisis; employing internal coping strategies; utilizing social contacts and social settings as a means of distraction from suicidal thoughts or risky substance use; utilizing family members, significant others, caregivers, and/or friends to help resolve the crisis; contacting mental health or substance use disorder professionals or agencies; and making the environment safe

Code system
HCPCS Level II
Status
Active
Billable
Yes
In effect from
2025-01-01
Request
curl https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/codes/hcpcs/G0560 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
200 OK · application/json
{
  "data": {
    "code": "G0560",
    "parent": null,
    "status": "active",
    "system": "hcpcs",
    "display": "Safety plan interven",
    "billable": true,
    "attributes": {
      "betos": "M5D",
      "coverage": "C",
      "action_code": "N",
      "type_of_service": "1",
      "pricing_indicator": "13",
      "action_effective_date": "2025-01-01"
    },
    "description": "Safety planning interventions, each 20 minutes personally performed by the billing practitioner, including assisting the patient in the identification of the following personalized elements of a safety plan: recognizing warning signs of an impending suicidal or substance use-related crisis; employing internal coping strategies; utilizing social contacts and social settings as a means of distraction from suicidal thoughts or risky substance use; utilizing family members, significant others, caregivers, and/or friends to help resolve the crisis; contacting mental health or substance use disorder professionals or agencies; and making the environment safe",
    "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

G0560 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

G0560 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 G0560 from code or an agent

curl
curl https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/codes/hcpcs/G0560 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
MCP prompt
Using the healthcare.dev MCP server, look up HCPCS Level II code G0560. 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.