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W517
W517 – Admission assessment - Type 3
OHIP Consultations and Visits Code — CONSULTATIONS AND VISITS · Schedule of Benefits
A Type 3 admission assessment is a general re-assessment of a patient who is re-admitted to a long-term care institution after a minimum 3 day stay in another institution. This service applies to non-emergency in-patients in Chronic Care Hospitals, Convalescent Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Homes for the Aged, and designated chronic or convalescent care beds in hospitals, but not to patients in designated palliative care beds. As a general re-assessment, it includes all the services of a general assessment, with the exception of the patient's history, which does not need to include all details already obtained in the original assessment.
As a general re-assessment, the service must include all the elements of a general assessment, with the exception of the patient's history, which need not include all the details already obtained in the original assessment. The service must be documented in the patient's medical record.
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