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G620A — Neonatal intermediate care, Level C – 1st day

Neonatal intermediate care, day 1

Bill G620 for the first day of Level C neonatal intermediate care: oxygen, non-invasive monitoring or gavage feeding.

Watch for: If the infant arrives from another neonatal care level, bill the second-day rate G621 instead.

Code

G620A

Description

Neonatal intermediate care, Level C – 1st day

FHO+ basket

Not in the FHO+ base rate basket (Schedule 2 or 2B).

Effective date

Apr 1, 2025

Termination date

No end date

Explanation

Updated October 26, 2026

Level C neonatal intermediate care, first day: oxygen, non-invasive monitoring or gavage feeding. Team fee for the physician-in-charge.

What it covers

Neonatal intensive care is a team fee for being in constant or periodic attendance over a one-day period to provide all aspects of care to Intensive Care Area patients. It includes the initial consultation or assessment, later assessments, ongoing monitoring, and procedures such as arterial, venous, C.V.P. or urinary catheters, IV lines, blood gas interpretation, nasogastric and endotracheal intubation, tracheal toilet and ventilation (J33).

Level C is intermediate care including one or more of oxygen administration, non-invasive monitoring or gavage feeding (J33). Bill G620 for the first day and G621 for each day after.

Billing rules

• Bill once for the first day of Level C care; later days are G621 (J33).
• If the infant arrives from another level of neonatal care, the second-day rate (G621) applies (J33).
• If the patient was discharged from the unit more than 48 hours earlier and is re-admitted, the first-day rate applies again (J30).
• These are team fees for neonatologists, paediatricians and anaesthesiologists giving complete care; the physician-in-charge is the physician(s) providing the care each day (J33).
• While billing neonatal intensive care, no other critical care codes are paid to the same physician(s) (J30).
• Life-threatening or other critical care (G521–G523, G395, G391) is not paid to the same physician on the same day as this per diem (J27, J28).
• C101 ICU visit premium and special visit premiums are not payable with NICU team fees (GP103, GP65).
• Add G556 when the initial NICU admission visit is at night (00:00–07:00); once per patient per admission (J35).

Often billed with

• G556 night-time ICU/NICU admission assessment premium (J35).
• Separately billable interventions done that day (J33).

Related codes: G621, G610, G611, G600, G601, G556

Source: Schedule of Benefits (July 1, 2026), Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures, Critical Care (Neonatal Intensive Care), page J33.

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