Fee
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| Specialist fee | $216.30 |
Schedule and sources
- Fee edition
- October 1, 2026
- Record effective
- 2025-04-01
- Schedule edition
- July 22, 2026; effective July 1, 2026
- Official files
- Fee masterSchedule PDFOntario source page
(video Urgent community psychiatric $216.30
Urgent community psychiatric follow-up, to A190, A195, A192, A198, A695 or A795 ..................................................... add 216.30
Passages mentioning K189
K189 (video Urgent community psychiatric $216.30 only) follow-up
Acute post-discharge community psychiatric care
Acute post-discharge community psychiatric care is a premium for a service that occurs during
the (4) week period immediately following discharge where the patient was a hospital in-patient
for treatment of a psychiatric condition. The premium is only applicable to K195, K196, K197 or
K198.
K187 Acute post-discharge community psychiatric care, to K195,
K196, K197 or K198 ............................................. add 15%
High risk community psychiatric care
High risk community psychiatric care is a premium for a service that occurs during the six (6)
month period following a suicide attempt. For the purposes of this premium, suicide attempts
include self-harm attempts with intent to commit suicide or high lethality self-harm attempts, but
do not include self harm attempts of low lethality with no intent to commit suicide. The premium
is applicable to A190, A191, A192, A195, A197, A198, A695, A795, K195, K196, K197 and
K198.
K188 High risk community psychiatric care, to A190, A191, A192,
A195, A197, A198, A695, A795, K195, K196, K197 or K198
............................................................................. add 15%
Payment rules:
1.K187 or K188 are both payable with K195, K196, K197 or K198 when rendered during the
first four (4) week period following discharge where the patient was a hospital in-patient for
treatment of a psychiatric condition and the requirements for both K187 and K188 are met.
2.K188 is not eligible for payment in addition to K189 on the same patient same day.
K189 Urgent community psychiatric follow-up, to A190, A195, A192,
A198, A695 or A795 ..................................................... add 216.30
Payment rules:
1.K189 is only eligible for payment when the psychiatrist providing the urgent community
psychiatric follow-up:
a.renders a service described by A190, A195, A192, A198, A695 or A795 to an out-patient
on an urgent basis during the four (4) week period immediately following discharge where
the patient was a hospital in-patient for treatment of a psychiatric condition;
b.did not provide services to the same patient during the same psychiatric hospital
admission; and
c.will continue appropriate care of the out-patient for a minimum of six (6) months as
required.
2.K189 is limited to a maximum of one per physician per patient per 12 month period.Fee master record
Master, record 2981. Record Layout PDF, page 1.
K18920250401999999990000000000000000000000000021630000000000000000000000000
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.
| Field | Raw / scale 10,000 |
|---|---|
| provider | 00000000000 / 0 |
| assistant | 00000000000 / 0 |
| specialist | 00002163000 / 216.3 |
| anaesthetist | 00000000000 / 0 |
| non anaesthetist | 00000000000 / 0 |
Explanation
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Urgent community psychiatric follow-up, added to listed psychiatry codes A190, A195, A192, A198, A695 or A795. Listed under Psychiatric Clinical Practice Modifiers/Premiums in the Psychiatry section.
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Only eligible for payment when the psychiatrist providing the follow-up renders a service described by A190, A195, A192, A198, A695 or A795 to an out-patient (source text is cut off here). K188 is not eligible for payment in addition to K189 on the same patient on the same day.
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