MSP BillBudBC emergency medicine billing guides
Worked examples of common emergency department scenarios and how to bill them under the BC MSC Payment Schedule, with current fees.
- Billing a shoulder dislocation reduced under procedural sedation
- Billing cardioversion under sedation: cardioversion code or resus time?
- Billing ear foreign body removal under sedation
- Billing a laceration repair plus specialist phone advice (14018)
- Billing a resuscitation that ends in intubation (01870 vs 01091)
- Billing an inferior alveolar nerve block for dental pain
- Billing a perianal abscess drained under sedation
- Billing a lateral malleolus fracture with a splint (01851)
- Billing a distal radius fracture reduced under sedation
- Billing a distal radius reduction under a hematoma block
- Billing a patient referred in by their family doctor: consult or level code?
- Billing a call when another doctor phones you for advice (14021 or 01881)
- Billing a Level 3 night patient with a reassessment (01882)
- Level 2 plus a reassessment vs Level 3: which pays more by day
- The hour of power: night rates until 0800
- Weekend evening visits: weekend or evening level codes?
- Short resus with intubation: bill the intubation or the resus time?
- Billing as the second ED physician at a resuscitation
- Billing specialist advice when the specialist comes to see the patient