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G862A — Chronic dialysis weekly team fee – self-care or satellite haemodialysis

Weekly dialysis, self-care or satellite

Bill G862 once per week as most responsible physician when the patient's main dialysis was hospital self-care or satellite haemodialysis.

Watch for: Claim the code for that week's predominant location and modality; included consultations and visits aren't billed separately.

Code

G862A

Description

Chronic dialysis weekly team fee – self-care or satellite haemodialysis

FHO+ basket

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

Effective date

Apr 1, 2026

Termination date

No end date

Explanation

Updated October 26, 2026

Weekly all-inclusive physician team fee for a patient on hospital self-care or satellite haemodialysis, paid to the most responsible physician.

What it covers

The chronic dialysis team fee is the all-inclusive weekly benefit per patient for the professional side of managing chronic dialysis and end-stage renal failure. It is modality independent and has the same value whether dialysis is in hospital, community or home, haemodialysis or peritoneal (J39).

G862 is the weekly team fee when the predominant modality and location is hospital self-care haemodialysis or satellite haemodialysis (J40).

Billing rules

• One weekly fee per patient for a 7-day period starting at midnight Sunday, payable to the most responsible physician; other physicians' services that the fee includes are paid at nil (J39).
• Claim the code for the predominant location and modality that week (J40).
• If the patient is treated part of the week at an auxiliary treatment centre, the principal centre's claim is reduced to 1/7 of the weekly fee for each day the patient was its responsibility (J39).
• Includes all consultations and visits to manage chronic dialysis (including in-patients on chronic dialysis), nephrology and internal medicine care of dialysis complications and end-stage renal disease, related counselling, interviews, psychotherapy and case conferences (J39).
• Not included, so billed separately: ED assessments and special visit premiums for emergent calls; admission assessments and subsequent visits for acute in-patients with complications or intercurrent illness; other procedures including acute dialysis; consults by other specialties; the family physician's primary care; transplant program entry assessment (J39).
• Marked #: the fee doesn't include premises, equipment, supplies or staff (J1).

Often billed with

• Hospital admission assessment and subsequent visits (for example C162) when the patient is admitted for complications or intercurrent illness, which the team fee excludes (J39).

Related codes: G860, G861, G863, G864, G865, G866, G325

Source: Schedule of Benefits (July 1, 2026), Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures, Dialysis (Chronic dialysis team fee), page J40; rules J39.

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