Has everyone read up on the announcement that effective 1/1/20 we will have to bill LPN visits with a T1031 code instead of the T1030? So we also have to have our authorizations match for each.

I have concerns over this. Primarily we frequently have last minute changes in who sees clients due to staff illness, overloaded nurses sharing work to ease themselves up, etc. So now we have to count our LPN visits and make sure we have enough authorization. Some clients are regulars with LPNs seeing them and some are irregular. It seems like a massive amount of wasted time on the part of providers.

Tracy Salin

Billing Specialist

Fairview Range Home Care and Hospice