Ontario Medical Billing 2012 Schedule of Benefits Updates - Case Conferences

While I’m sure you’ve all received your email updates from the Ontario Medical Association, I’m also sure that we are all still getting our heads around all of the new codes in the 2011 Schedule of Benefits update!  We are still making changes and additions to the OMBIS Billing Module Database and will be sending emails to our membership shortly with some new great resources – but in the mean time we will start blogging about some of the new codes just to draw your attention to them so you can see whether or not it’s appropriate to start incorporating them into your practice.

One of the areas majorly affected by code additions and changes is case conferences.  The 2011 changes bring lots of revisions to the existing case conference codes and also lots of new codes for case conferences.  The case conference related codes are as follows:
K121 ($31.35) – Hospital In-Patient Case Conference
K700 ($31.35) – Palliative Care Out-Patient Case Conference
K704 ($31.35) – Paediatric Out-Patient Case Conference
K701 ($31.35) – Mental Health Out-Patient Case Conference
K702 ($31.35) – Bariatric Out-Patient Case Conference
K703 ($31.35) – Geriatric Out-Patient Case Conference
K707 ($31.35) – Chronic Pain Out-Patient Case Conference
K124 ($31.35) – Long-Term Care / CCAC Case Conference
K705 ($31.35) – Long Term Care – High Risk Patient Case Conference
K706 ($31.35) – Convalescent Care Program Case Conference

All of the appropriate changes regarding the above-noted codes have been made in the OMBIS Billing Module Database, so members can search away to see what the intended use for these codes are, as well as the appropriate billing instructions and rules entail.

We’ll be blogging over the next few weeks and drawing your attention to the significant changes and new codes that you should be aware of, so keep checking back!