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G9400

Doc reas no disc tx opt

Documentation of medical or patient reason(s) for not discussing treatment options; medical reasons: patient is not a candidate for treatment due to advanced physical or mental health comorbidity (including active substance use); currently receiving antiviral treatment; successful antiviral treatment (with sustained virologic response) prior to reporting period; other documented medical reasons; patient reasons: patient unable or unwilling to participate in the discussion or other patient reasons

Code system
HCPCS Level II
Status
Retired 2022-01-01
Billable
No
In effect from
2015-01-01

This code is no longer in use: it was retired on 2022-01-01. No replacement code is listed here.

Request
curl https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/codes/hcpcs/G9400 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
200 OK · application/json
{
  "data": {
    "code": "G9400",
    "parent": null,
    "status": "retired",
    "system": "hcpcs",
    "display": "Doc reas no disc tx opt",
    "billable": false,
    "attributes": {
      "betos": "Z2",
      "coverage": "C",
      "action_code": "N",
      "type_of_service": "1",
      "pricing_indicator": "00",
      "action_effective_date": "2022-01-01"
    },
    "description": "Documentation of medical or patient reason(s) for not discussing treatment options; medical reasons: patient is not a candidate for treatment due to advanced physical or mental health comorbidity (including active substance use); currently receiving antiviral treatment; successful antiviral treatment (with sustained virologic response) prior to reporting period; other documented medical reasons; patient reasons: patient unable or unwilling to participate in the discussion or other patient reasons",
    "replaced_by": [],
    "effective_end": "2022-01-01",
    "effective_start": "2015-01-01",
    "care_categories": [],
    "care_category_details": []
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "cms-hcpcs",
    "data_version": "2026-10"
  }
}

CMS attributes

G9400 in the HCPCS file

betos
Z2
coverage
C
action code
N
type of service
1
pricing indicator
00
action effective date
2022-01-01

Change history

Lifecycle

G9400 has been in effect since 2015-01-01 and was retired on 2022-01-01. 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 G9400 from code or an agent

curl
curl https://api.healthcare.dev/v1/codes/hcpcs/G9400 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HDEV_API_KEY"
MCP prompt
Using the healthcare.dev MCP server, look up HCPCS Level II code G9400. 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.