G511

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TELEPHONE MANAGEMENT OF PALLIATIVE CARE
         The provision by telephone of medical advice, direction or information at the request of the
         patient, patient’s relative(s), patient’s representative or other caregiver(s), regarding a patient
         receiving palliative care at home. The service must be rendered personally by the physician
         and is eligible for payment only when a dated summary of the telephone call is recorded in the
         patient’s medical record.
   G511 Telephone management regarding a patient receiving palliative
           care at home ...........................................................per call   18.20

PDF page 516 / J102

Payment rules:
       1. The service is only eligible for payment when rendered by the physician most responsible for
         the patient’s care, or by a physician substituting for this physician.
       2. G511, K071 or K072 are not eligible for payment to any physician when rendered during a
         week that G512 is rendered.
       3. G512 is limited to a maximum of one per week (Monday to Sunday inclusive) per patient
         and, in the instance a patient is transferred from one most responsible physician to another,
         is only eligible for payment to the physician who rendered the service the majority of the
         week.
       4. In the event of the death of the patient or where care commences on any day of the week,
         G512 is eligible for payment even if the service was not provided for the entire week.

Master, record 2222. Record Layout PDF, page 1.

G51120260401999999990000018200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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.