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E101B
E101B – Surgical assistant standby
OHIP General Preamble Code — GENERAL PREAMBLE · Schedule of Benefits
E101B is a time-based service payable for standby as a surgical assistant following a minimum of 30 minutes of unforeseen delay beyond the scheduled start time for surgery. The physician must be physically present in the operating room suite for the period between the scheduled and actual surgical start time. Time is calculated from 30 minutes after the scheduled start time until the surgery commences as recorded in the hospital's operating suite records.
The start time for the service commences 30 minutes after the scheduled surgical start time and ends when the surgery actually commences as recorded in the hospital's operating suite records.
Usage limits
[1, "day", "per_physician", "Limited to one surgical case per physician per day"]
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