$159.43
90839 represents psychotherapy for an acute crisis. G0560 is for developing or updating practical suicide-risk safety strategies, not crisis psychotherapy by itself.
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CMS RVU26D · Effective 2026-10-01
G0560 Safety planning Medicare reimbursement rates in Vermont
A clinician develops an individualized suicide safety plan with a patient at risk, including practical coping steps and strategies to reduce access to lethal means. Compare G0560 office and facility rates across CMS payment localities in Vermont.
Amounts below use the non-QP conversion factor for participating physicians. These are base physician payments before claim-level adjustments, not patient costs or total hospital charges.
What does Medicare pay for G0560 in Vermont?
Vermont has 1 payment locality in this comparison. Use the service location to choose the applicable amount. These are the supported base rates for the payment area shown below, using the same CMS release.
Office / nonfacility
$42.20
1 of 1 localities have a supported rate.
Payment area: Vermont
One mapped payment locality.
Facility setting
$39.22
1 of 1 localities have a supported rate.
Payment area: Vermont
One mapped payment locality.
These are locality ranges, not averages or address-specific quotes. A facility-setting amount covers the physician service; it does not include a hospital’s separate bill. Choose a locality below to inspect its calculation, compare other payment areas, or price a percentage of Medicare.
Behavioral health
About G0560: Suicide risk safety planning intervention
A clinician develops an individualized suicide safety plan with a patient at risk, including practical coping steps and strategies to reduce access to lethal means.
G0560 covers a clinician’s work with a patient to create or strengthen an individualized plan for reducing suicide risk. The plan may identify warning signs, internal coping strategies, supportive people or places, professional resources, and steps to make the environment safer, including lethal-means safety counseling. Physicians and other qualified health care professionals may provide the intervention in settings such as an emergency department or outpatient behavioral health practice when suicide risk is identified.
Report the code for the safety-planning intervention itself, rather than for screening or risk assessment alone. Documentation should show the patient’s risk-related needs, the individualized strategies discussed, and the plan developed or updated. CMS assigns work, practice-expense, and malpractice values to the service in the physician fee schedule. The supplied CMS rules list no additional payment instructions for this code.
Where the value comes from
- Work RVU1.09 · 86%
- Practice expense (office) RVU0.17 · 13%
- Malpractice RVU0.01 · 1%
This summary was written with AI assistance from CMS physician fee schedule data and checked against the CMS billing rules shown here. Rates on this page come directly from CMS files.
G0560 compared with similar codes
Office rates for Vermont, from the same CMS release.
$172.58
90791 is a psychiatric diagnostic evaluation. G0560 represents the safety-planning work; an evaluation alone does not establish that the plan was developed.
$4.80
96127 is used for a brief emotional or behavioral assessment with a standardized instrument. G0560 involves collaborative planning to reduce suicide risk, not just screening or scoring.
Compare G0560 by payment locality
Find the payment area for your service address, then open its rate page for calculation inputs, release history and the percentage-of-Medicare tool. A city may cross payment-area boundaries; the ZIP lookup above helps resolve the location.
1 of 1 payment localities
Vermont →
Office / nonfacility
$42.20
Facility
$39.22
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How this local rate is calculated
Each RVU component is multiplied by its own geographic practice cost index (GPCI). The three adjusted components are added, then multiplied by the conversion factor. These are the inputs used for G0560 in Vermont.
PPRRVU2026_Oct_nonQPP.csv
15,355
- Code
- G0560
- Physician work
- 1.09
- Practice expense
- 0.17
- Malpractice
- 0.01
GPCI2026.csv
105
- Locality
- Vermont
- Physician work
- 1.000
- Practice expense
- 0.990
- Malpractice
- 0.506
| Component | RVU | Locality factor | Adjusted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physician work | 1.09 | × 1.000 | 1.0900 |
| Practice expense | 0.17 | × 0.990 | 0.1683 |
| Malpractice | 0.01 | × 0.506 | 0.0051 |
| Total RVUs | 1.2634 | ||
| Conversion factor | × 33.4009 | ||
Office / nonfacility rate, Vermont$42.20
Explore RVUs, geographic factors and the full formula
Office / nonfacility
| Component | RVU | Local GPCI |
|---|---|---|
| Work | 1.09 | 1 |
| Practice expense | 0.17 | 0.99 |
| Malpractice | 0.01 | 0.506 |
(1.09 × 1 + 0.17 × 0.99 + 0.01 × 0.506) × $33.4009 = $42.20
Facility
| Component | RVU | Local GPCI |
|---|---|---|
| Work | 1.09 | 1 |
| Practice expense | 0.08 | 0.99 |
| Malpractice | 0.01 | 0.506 |
(1.09 × 1 + 0.08 × 0.99 + 0.01 × 0.506) × $33.4009 = $39.22
The office and facility calculations use their respective practice-expense RVUs. The facility amount here is the physician fee, not a separate hospital or facility bill.
G0560 billing questions
When should a practice report G0560 instead of a suicide-risk screen?
Report G0560 when the clinician works with the patient to develop or update actionable safety strategies. A screening instrument or risk assessment alone does not document that intervention.
What should the note include?
Document the patient-specific risks addressed and the safety steps developed, such as warning signs, coping actions, support contacts, crisis resources, or means-safety steps.
Is a safety plan the same as crisis psychotherapy?
No. G0560 represents safety planning; crisis psychotherapy involves immediate therapeutic treatment of a crisis and is represented by codes such as 90839 when its requirements are met.
Can G0560 be reported with an emergency department visit?
It may be reported when the clinician also furnishes and documents the safety-planning intervention during an emergency department encounter. The visit evaluation alone is not the safety-planning service.
Does documenting a referral or crisis hotline number support G0560?
A referral or resource listing by itself does not describe an individualized safety-planning intervention. The record should show active work with the patient on risk-reduction strategies.
Where these rates come from
FeeBase calculates base physician payments from CMS work, practice-expense, and malpractice RVUs, adjusted by each locality’s geographic indices and the applicable conversion factor. Unavailable or separately priced services are labeled rather than assigned a made-up amount.
Source: RVU26D. Effective 2026-10-01 through the day before 2027-01-01.
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15,357G0562,,Complex simulation w/pet-ct,C,,0.00,0.00,,0.00,NA,0.00,0.00,0.00,1,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
15,358G0562,26,Complex simulation w/pet-ct,C,,0.00,0.00,,0.00,,0.00,0.00,0.00,1,XXX,0.00,0.00,0.00,0,0,0,0,0,9,,33.4009,09,0,99,0.00,0.00,0.00
10204412,TX,18,HOUSTON,1.008,0.993,1.376
10304412,TX,99,REST OF TEXAS,1.000,0.949,0.903
10403502,UT,09,UTAH,1.000,0.940,0.898
10514512,VT,50,VERMONT,1.000,0.990,0.506
10611302,VA,00,VIRGINIA,1.000,0.983,0.706
10709202,VI,50,VIRGIN ISLANDS,1.000,1.011,0.985
10802402,WA,02,SEATTLE (KING CNTY),1.050,1.227,0.817