Billing telephone codes in the emergency department

Emergency physicians have access to a fee codes that pay for scenarios where you are called for advice, where you call another physician for advice, or call a patient.

Commonly used fee codes

This infographic goes through the most commonly used telephone fee codes. The following section will cover codes that are used less often but might come in handy.

You can find full description of these codes in our excerpt of the MSP payment schedule by clicking here.

Calling a patient more than 14 days after encounter

In this case, you can fallback to the fee codes that the 01880 was meant to replace.

If you are CCFP-EM or CCFP, that would be the 14023:

If you are FRCPC, you can use the 10003:

What if I got advice via text message?

There is a fee code for that! See below: