A054

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CONSULTATIONS AND VISITS
COMMUNITY MEDICINE (05)
   General Listings
 A055 Consultation............................................................................               152.80
   Special community medicine consultation
     This service is a consultation rendered by a specialist in community medicine who provides all
     the appropriate elements of a consultation and spends a minimum of 50 minutes in direct
     contact with the patient, exclusive of time spent rendering any other separately billable
     intervention to the patient.
 A050 Special community medicine consultation ..............................        176.10
   Comprehensive community medicine consultation
     This service is a consultation rendered by a specialist in community medicine who provides all
     the appropriate elements of a consultation and spends a minimum of 75 minutes in direct
     contact with the patient, exclusive of time spent rendering any other separately billable
     intervention to the patient.
 A400 Comprehensive community medicine consultation.................                270.60
     Medical record requirements:
     For A050 and A400, the start and stop times must be recorded in the patient’s permanent
     medical record or the amount payable for the service will be adjusted to a lesser paying fee.
     [Commentary:
     1.A050 and A400 must satisfy all the elements of a consultation (see General Preamble
       GP16).
     2.Unless otherwise specified in the Schedule, the calculation of the 50 and 75 minute minimum
       time for special and comprehensive community medicine consultations respectively excludes
       (1) time devoted to any other service or procedure for which an amount is payable in addition
       to the consultation and (2) non-patient-facing time such as such as time spent reviewing
       charts, imaging, or documentation, etc..]
 A405 Limited consultation ................................................................ 94.75
 A056 Repeat consultation ................................................................  94.75
 A053 Medical specific assessment ..................................................        83.85
 A054 Medical specific re-assessment..............................................          64.30
 A051 Complex medical specific re-assessment...............................                 74.45
 A058 Partial assessment .................................................................  39.95
     EMERGENCY OR OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT (OPD)
      Physician in hospital but not on duty in the emergency department when seeing patients in the
      emergency or OPD - use General Listings.
   NON-EMERGENCY HOSPITAL IN-PATIENT SERVICES
    See General Preamble GP40 to GP48. For emergency calls and other special visits to in-
    patients, use General Listings and Premiums when applicable - see General Preamble GP65
    to GP78.
 C055 Consultation............................................................................ 152.80
 C050 Special community medicine consultation – subject to the
         same conditions as A050 ...................................................           176.10
 C400 Comprehensive community medicine consultation – subject to
         the same conditions as A400 .............................................             270.60

Master, record 34. Record Layout PDF, page 1.

A05420260401999999990000000000000000000000000006430000000000000000000000000

Auxiliary master fields are preserved as raw scaled values. The linked layout calls them zero-filled, but this edition contains non-zero values. They are not presented as final dollar fees or PDF units.