J9187: Injection, etoposide, 1 mg
J9187 is a HCPCS Level II code for injection, etoposide, 1 mg. It belongs to the Drugs Administered Other Than Oral Method section. Whether Medicare pays it depends on the coverage rule below.
Medicare coverage: Special coverage instructions apply
There are published conditions attached to this code. Check the applicable coverage policy before billing it: the code being valid is not the same as the service being covered.
From the coverage field of the CMS Alpha-Numeric HCPCS File, release 2026Q4-Oct. This states Medicare’s position on the code, not on your particular claim.
The CMS record for J9187
- Long descriptor
- Injection, etoposide, 1 mg
- Short descriptor
- Inj, etoposide, 1 mg
- Added
- October 1, 2026
- BETOS
- O1D
- Pricing indicator
- 51: Other
The official wording. This is what the code means.
CMS's 28-character form, which is what shows up on a remittance advice.
When CMS introduced the code.
Berenson-Eggers Type of Service: CMS's own analytic grouping.
Drugs.
Codes adjacent to J9187
HCPCS has no hierarchy: related items simply sit next to each other in the numbering. If J9187 is not quite right, the correct code is very often within a few positions of it.
- J9177Injection, enfortumab vedotin-ejfv, 0.25 mg
- J9178Injection, epirubicin hcl, 2 mg
- J9179Injection, eribulin mesylate, 0.1 mg
- J9181Injection, etoposide, 10 mgterminated
- J9183Gemcitabine intravesical system, 225 mg
- J9184Injection, gemcitabine hydrochloride (avyxa), 200 mg
- J9185Injection, fludarabine phosphate, 50 mg
- J9186Injection, etoposide (avyxa), 1 mg
- J9190Injection, fluorouracil, 500 mgterminated
- J9191Injection, fluorouracil (avyxa), 10 mg
- J9192Injection, fluorouracil, 10 mg
- J9196Injection, gemcitabine hydrochloride (accord), not therapeutically equivalent to j9201, 200 mg
- J9198Injection, gemcitabine hydrochloride, (infugem), 100 mg
- J9199Injection, gemcitabine hydrochloride (infugem), 200 mgterminated
- J9200Injection, floxuridine, 500 mg
- J9201Injection, gemcitabine hydrochloride, not otherwise specified, 200 mg