Ontario Health Insurance Plan
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Keeping Health Care Providers informed of payment, policy or program changes
To: All Providers
Published by: Claims Services Branch, Ministry of Health
Date Issued: February 5, 2020
Bulletin Number: 4740
Re: Mandatory Service Location Indicator (SLI) on Technical Fees
Posted Electronically Only
Effective for claims with service dates of April 1, 2020 and later, when a technical fee is submitted without a Service Location Indicator (SLI) the entire claim will reject to the physician/group error report with the new error condition ‘VHC – SLI REQUIRED FOR TECH FEE’.
This will include both Health Care Provider (HCP) and Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WCB) claims. Claims submitted with a service date prior to April 1, 2020, will continue to pay with the ‘W4 - Warning: Service Location Indicator Code Missing’ explanatory code. Â Out of Province claims are not required to have an SLI code on a claim for a technical fee.
The following is a list of valid SLI codes:
- HDS - Hospital Day Surgery
- HED - Hospital Emergency Department
- HIP - Hospital In-Patient
- HOM - Home Visit - Subsequent Patient
- HOP - Hospital Out-Patient
- HRP - Hospital Referred Patient
- IHF - Independent Health Facility
- OFF - Office of Community Physician
- OTN - Ontario Telemedicine Network
- PDF - Private Diagnostic Facility
- RTF - Rehabilitation Treatment Facility
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