Wiki Modifer GV

[Gemini18]

When is the modifier GV used?

I am auditing a chart where it is coded 99223GV. The patient is in the hospital. I thought the GV should be used if the physician is seeing the patient in the hospice/nursing home. Is this correct?

Thanks.

 

[nwilliams714]

GV Modifier

The GV modifier is used when a physician is seeing a hospice patient, but the physician is not employed by the hospice.

 

[RebeccaWoodward*]

GV allows the attending physician to be paid for his services since he is not employed or paid under the hospice agreement.

 

[Gemini18]

Thanks.