K680

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Substance abuse - extended assessment
     A substance abuse - extended assessment is the service for providing care to patients
     receiving therapy for substance abuse. The service has the same specific elements as an
     assessment.
 K680 Substance abuse - extended assessment.................. per unit            80.00
     Payment rules:
     1.K680 is a time based service with time calculated based on units. Unit means ½ hour or
       major part thereof – see General Preamble GP7, GP55 for definitions and time-keeping
       requirements.
      2.No other consultation, assessment, visit or time based service is eligible for payment when
        rendered the same day as K680 to the same patient by the same physician.
      3.K680 is not eligible for payment for management of smoking cessation.
      Medical record requirements:
      Start and stop times must be recorded in the patient's permanent medical record or payment
      will be adjusted to reflect the service documented in the medical record.
      [Commentary:
      See K039 – smoking cessation.]
    Monthly management of a patient in an Opioid Agonist Maintenance Program (OAMP)

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CONSULTATIONS AND VISITS
 VIRTUAL CARE SERVICES
                    • A801 – Comprehensive midwife or Aboriginal Midwife-requested genetic
                      assessment by Video,
                 • A800 – Midwife or Aboriginal Midwife-requested genetic assessment by Video,
                 • A253 – Optometrist-Requested Assessment (ORA) by Video,
                 • A256 – Special optometrist-requested assessment by Video,
                 • A957 – Addiction medicine FPA by Video,
                 • K680 – Substance abuse – extended assessment by Video.
          [Commentary:
          1.Follow-up Virtual Care Services provided in the 24-months subsequent to the services listed
            in 3 or 4 may be claimed as Comprehensive Virtual Care Services.]
          GP Focused Practice Physician means, for the purpose of eligibility to provide a focused
          practice consultation by Video (A010, A011, A906, A913, A914), a physician who has been
          designated by the bi-lateral MOH-OMA GP Focused Practice Review Committee or a physician
          who is eligible for the focused practice psychotherapy premium.
          Limited Virtual Care Service means a Virtual Care Service rendered where an Existing/
          Ongoing Patient-Physician Relationship does not exist, and in the physicians’ professional
          opinion in accordance with accepted professional standards and practice, the person's care
          and support requirements can be effectively and appropriately delivered by Video or
          Telephone.
          Verified-Virtual Visit Solution means virtual service delivery platforms listed on Ontario
          Health’s public list of verified solutions.
          Virtual Care Service means a service provided using information technologies to render
          eligible services to patients remotely.

Master, record 3025. Record Layout PDF, page 1.

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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.