G9636 — Health-related quality of life not assessed with tool during at least two visits or quality of life score declined

Codes adjacent to G9636

HCPCS has no hierarchy — related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If G9636 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.

• G9628Patient sustained bowel injury at the time of surgery or discovered subsequently up to 30 days post-surgery
• G9629Documented medical reasons for not reporting bowel injury (e.g., gynecologic or other pelvic malignancy documented, planned (e.g., not due to an unexpected bowel injury) resection and/or re-anastomosis of bowel, or patient death from non-medical causes not related to surgery, patient died during procedure without evidence of bowel injury)
• G9630Patient did not sustain a bowel injury at the time of surgery nor discovered subsequently up to 30 days post-surgery
• G9631Patient sustained ureter injury at the time of surgery or discovered subsequently up to 30 days post-surgeryterminated
• G9632Documented medical reasons for not reporting ureter injury (e.g., gynecologic or other pelvic malignancy documented, concurrent surgery involving bladder pathology, injury that occurs during a urinary incontinence procedure, patient death from non-medical causes not related to surgery, patient died during procedure without evidence of ureter injury)terminated
• G9633Patient did not sustain ureter injury at the time of surgery nor discovered subsequently up to 30 days post-surgeryterminated
• G9634Health-related quality of life assessed with tool during at least two visits and quality of life score remained the same or improvedterminated
• G9635Health-related quality of life not assessed with tool for documented reason(s) (e.g., patient has a cognitive or neuropsychiatric impairment that impairs his/her ability to complete the hrqol survey, patient has the inability to read and/or write in order to complete the hrqol questionnaire)terminated
• G9637Final reports with documentation of one or more dose reduction techniques (e.g., automated exposure control, adjustment of the ma and/or kv according to patient size, use of iterative reconstruction technique)
• G9638Final reports without documentation of one or more dose reduction techniques (e.g., automated exposure control, adjustment of the ma and/or kv according to patient size, use of iterative reconstruction technique)
• G9639Major amputation or open surgical bypass not required within 48 hours of the index endovascular lower extremity revascularization procedureterminated
• G9640Documentation of planned hybrid or staged procedureterminated
• G9641Major amputation or open surgical bypass required within 48 hours of the index endovascular lower extremity revascularization procedureterminated
• G9642Current smoker (e.g., cigarette, cigar, pipe, e-cigarette or marijuana)
• G9643Elective surgery
• G9644Patients who abstained from smoking prior to anesthesia on the day of surgery or procedure

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