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INFORMATION FROM CMS
Effective January 1, 2021, CMS is implementing Value Code (VC) D6:
Title (short descriptor): The total number of minutes of dialysis provided during the billing period.
Designation: NM (Non-Monetary)
Definition: The machine reported number of minutes (rounded to the nearest whole minute) of dialysis treatment time. The total count includes only the minutes spent dialyzing. The duration begins when the treatment starts and ends when the treatment is complete. The units reported must exceed 1.
The provider counts only the minutes spent dialyzing. It reports in whole minutes (Rounded to the nearest whole minute and reported left of the decimal).
ESRD facilities must report VC D6 on ESRD claims, for in-facility or home hemodialysis maintenance, training, or retraining treatments. The following provides further explanation of what VC D6 must report:
• A single, aggregated value derived from each dialysis treatment time furnished to a single ESRD beneficiary during one billing period
• Dialysis treatment time includes only the time the ESRD beneficiary spends being dialyzed by the dialysis machine and does not include any other time spent at the facility (or in another treatment setting)
• The total count includes all the minutes the ESRD beneficiary spends being dialyzed over the course of all dialysis treatment sessions during the billing period
• The count begins when the dialysis treatment starts and ends when the treatment is complete
• The count is collected from a dialysis machine’s recorded dialysis minutes treatment time
• Report in whole minutes (rounded to the nearest whole minute and reported left of the decimal) Exceed 1