OHIP codes

Consultations and Visits
Family Practice & Practice in General

Home Care

K070 Home Care Application - is the service rendered by the most responsible physician for completion and submission of a home care service request form to a Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) on behalf of a patient for whom the physician provides on-going medical care. The amount payable for this service is in addition to the assessment fee payable, where applicable. The amount payable for completion of the home care service request form if completed in whole or part by a person other than the physician or the physician's employee is nil.

Home Care Supervision - is the service rendered by the most responsible physician for personally providing medical advice, direction or information in response to an oral or other inquiry form health care staff of a Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) or CCAC contractor on behalf of a patient for whom the physician provides on-going medical care. The date, the question, response and identity of the health care staff must be recorded in the patient's medical record. The amount payable for home care supervision without the required record of service in the patient's medical record is nil. The amount payable for home care supervision rendered on the same day as a consultation or visit by the same physician with the same patient is nil.

K071 Acute Home Care Supervision (maximum 1 every 2 weeks for the first 12 weeks following admission to home care program.

K072 Chronic Home Care Supervision (maximum 1 per month commencing in the 13th week following admission to the home care program.

Please consult the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's Schedule of Benefits for the most current information regarding billing fees.