What are the correct billing and procedure codes to use for home hemodialysis?
These are the codes to use to bill for home dialysis patients that the nephrologist supervises for the full month based on the age of the patient: • < 2 years old - G0320 • 2-11 years old - G0321 • 12-19 years old - G0322 • 20 or older - G0323 Physicians are to bill for 1 unit of service for supervision of a home dialysis patient who does home dialysis the whole month. Medicare reimbursement is the same as what it would be for seeing an in-center patient 2-3 visits. CMS recommends that the physician see the home patient monthly, but doesn't currently require it. If the patient is not a home patient for the whole month because he or she is hospitalized or treated by another doctor, use the codes G0324-G0327 (below) and bill for the number of days. Payment per day is at 1/30th of the monthly rate. • < 2 years old - G0324 • 2-11 years old - G0325 • 12-19 years old - G0326 • 20 or older - G0327 These are the codes to use for home training: • Patient completed training - use 90989 with the
