| GP/FP | Medical oncology | All other specialties | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fee code (description) | No. of claims | Column %* | Row %* | No. of claims | Column %* | Row %* | No. of claims | Column %* | Row %* | No. of claims | Column %* |
| A901 (GP/FP house call) | 16 197 | 1 | 97 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 429 | 0 | 3 | 16 628 | 0 |
| A902 (pronouncement of death in home) | 4 758 | 0 | 95 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 241 | 0 | 5 | 5 001 | 0 |
| A945 (GP/FP special palliative care consultation) | 47 298 | 2 | 91 | 523 | 0 | 1 | 3 958 | 1 | 8 | 51 779 | 2 |
| B966 (travel premium, palliative care home visit) | 53 467 | 2 | 94 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 504 | 1 | 6 | 56 977 | 2 |
| B990 (special visit to patient’s home, weekday/daytime) | 298 642 | 11 | 94 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 18 072 | 5 | 6 | 316 785 | 9 |
| B992 (special visit to patient’s home, weekday/daytime, with sacrifice to office hours) | 23 527 | 1 | 98 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 453 | 0 | 2 | 23 982 | 1 |
| B994 (special visit to patient’s home, nonelective, evenings) | 181 541 | 7 | 97 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 6 463 | 2 | 3 | 188 061 | 6 |
| B996 (special visit to patient’s home, night time, first patient of the night) | 8 226 | 0 | 91 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 769 | 0 | 9 | 9 002 | 0 |
| B997 (special visit to patient’s home, palliative care, days or evenings [from 2009]) | 461 | 0 | 94 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 5 | 492 | 0 |
| B998 (special visit to patient’s home, palliative care, days or evenings [from 2005]) | 146 806 | 5 | 95 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 7 342 | 2 | 5 | 154 179 | 5 |
| C882 (GP/FP terminal care in hospital) | 436 998 | 16 | 96 | 330 | 0 | 0 | 19 573 | 5 | 4 | 456 901 | 14 |
| C945 (special palliative care consultation, hospital in-patient) | 41 208 | 1 | 90 | 148 | 0 | 0 | 4 570 | 1 | 10 | 45 926 | 1 |
| C982 (palliative care, hospital in-patient) | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 013 | 2 | 12 | 29 688 | 8 | 88 | 33 705 | 1 |
| E083 (subsequent visit as most responsible physician) | 68 524 | 2 | 89 | 255 | 0 | 0 | 7 918 | 2 | 10 | 76 697 | 2 |
| K015 (counselling a relative on behalf of a patient) | 73 267 | 3 | 33 | 23 632 | 11 | 11 | 124 872 | 32 | 56 | 221 771 | 7 |
| K023 (palliative care support to individual, 30 minutes) | 777 085 | 28 | 87 | 29 465 | 14 | 3 | 82 098 | 21 | 9 | 888 648 | 26 |
| K700 (palliative care outpatient case conference) | 1 204 | 0 | 93 | 85 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 301 | 0 |
| W872 (terminal care in nursing home, GP/FP) | 6 487 | 0 | 99 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 0 | 1 | 6 581 | 0 |
| W882 (terminal care in chronic care hospital, GP/FP) | 69 694 | 2 | 92 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 292 | 2 | 8 | 75 988 | 2 |
| G511 (telephone management of palliative care at home) | 15 849 | 1 | 92 | 331 | 0 | 2 | 1 112 | 0 | 6 | 17 292 | 1 |
| G512 (weekly palliative care case management) | 519 220 | 19 | 71 | 147 755 | 71 | 20 | 68 889 | 18 | 9 | 735 864 | 2 |
| Total | 2 790 463 | 82 | 206 721 | 386 376 | 11 | 3 383 560 | |||||
Note: GP/FP = general practitioner/family physician. Physicians in the GP/FP column were used to create the algorithm. Medical oncologists and other specialists are shown for comparison in this table but were not included in the algorithm. *Column % allows within-group comparison. Row % allows between-group comparison.