Can a community-based GP bill this fee for the discharge planning of a patient from an acute-care hospital?
This fee does not cover routine discharge planning from an acute-care facility, nor is this fee payable for conferencing with acute-care nurses on the patients ward. The fee description above stipulates: iv) Requesting care providers limited to: long term care nurses, home care nurses, care coordinators, liaison nurses, rehab consultants, psychiatrists, social workers, CDM nurses, any health care provider charged with coordinating discharge and follow-up planning. If a patients diagnosis is covered under the restrictions of this fee and the condition is sufficiently complex to warrant a discharge conference with the above care providers, the GPs attendance at this conference is payable under this fee item – provided the GP is not employed by or under contract to the facility and would otherwise have attended the conference as a requirement of their employment or contract with the facility; or working under salary, service contract or sessional arrangements.
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