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G098
G098 – Transfusion support
OHIP Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures Code — DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES · Schedule of Benefits
The service rendered for transfusion support, iron overload management and Sickle Cell crisis management and prevention related to Sickle Cell Disease, Thalassemia or transfusion dependent Congenital Hemolytic Anemia. The service includes routine outpatient visits (including, for example, supervised blood transfusions, iron chelation therapy, monitoring of complications of iron overload, pain management of acute or chronic Sickle Cell Disease) and any counselling/psychotherapy/genetic counselling of the patient, the patient's relatives or their representatives.
The specific elements of this service are all services performed by the specialist in charge of the patient during a one-week period in providing non-emergency care to the patient, including providing any advice whether by telephone or otherwise and even when initiated by the patient, patient's relative(s), or their representative(s) and including providing all premises, equipment, supplies and personnel used by the specialist in charge of the patient to perform these services.
When physicians are required to make emergency visits, the appropriate visits and premiums are eligible for payment.
When the patient requires hospitalization, the appropriate fees for in-patient services are eligible for payment instead of G098.
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