Skilled services of a licensed nurse (lpn or rn) in the delivery of observation & assessment of the patient's condition, each 15 minutes (when the likelihood of change in the patient's condition requires skilled nursing personnel to identify and evaluate the patient's need for possible modification of treatment in the home health or hospice setting)
This is the 2011 version of HCPCS G0163 - please refer to the 2016 HCPCS code set for the latest version.
Status changed on Saturday, January 01, 2011 to: Add procedure or modifier code