Amendment to BCP (Business Cost Premium) description and Facility

Effective May 1, 2020, the following description and list of fees have been added temporarily to c.27. Business Cost Premium:

The BCP list of eligible fees has been temporarily amended to include Telehealth fee items during covid-19 pandemic to ensure BCP is paid given the majority of these services would have otherwise been provided to patients face-to-face at eligible physician offices. Eligible BCP claims require a registered facility number and a community-based office service location code. While Telehealth services do not need to be provided by the physician in their office, the appropriate facility number and service location code that should be entered on the claim is based on where the service would have been provided if it had been performed face-to-face.

Effective May 1, 2020, the following list of eligible Telehealth fee items has been added: