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Principal Illness Navigation Software for Billing and Documentation

Turn Care Coordination Into Billable Revenue

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Your team is already coordinating specialists, helping patients overcome barriers to care, and documenting critical interactions. Clinii works alongside your existing EHR to help capture qualifying Principal Illness Navigation activity, generate billing-ready documentation, and improve reimbursement visibility without adding staff or replacing the systems your team already uses.

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Supports G0023 and G0024

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Integrates With 25 EHRs

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AI-Powered Documentation

One Workflow for Principal Illness Navigation

Clinii supports the PIN workflow from patient eligibility through billing-ready documentation:

Instead of relying on spreadsheets, disconnected tools, or month-end reconstruction, Clinii helps organize qualifying activity within the workflows your team already uses. Agentic AI supports documentation as care coordination happens, helping organizations expand PIN services while reducing administrative burden.

  1. STEP 1 Identify potentially eligible patients
  2. STEP 2 Document the initiating visit and patient consent
  3. STEP 3 Complete the person-centered assessment
  4. STEP 4 Create the person-centered action plan
  5. STEP 5 Capture qualifying navigation activities and time
  6. STEP 6 Monitor monthly progress and documentation gaps
  7. RESULT Generate billing-ready documentation

What Is Principal Illness Navigation

Principal Illness Navigation, or PIN, is a Medicare-covered service for patients with a serious, high-risk condition expected to last at least three months. PIN supports patients as they navigate treatment, coordinate services, access community resources, and address barriers that may interfere with the practitioner’s treatment plan.

Qualified auxiliary personnel, including trained patient navigators, may deliver PIN services under the general supervision of the billing physician or other qualified healthcare practitioner. Standard PIN services are billed monthly under HCPCS codes G0023 and G0024. Separate peer-support codes, G0140 and G0146, apply to qualifying services furnished by trained peer-support personnel for serious, high-risk behavioral health conditions.

Principal Illness Navigation

The Operational Gap Behind Missed PIN Revenue

Many healthcare organizations already perform activities that align with Principal Illness Navigation. The challenge is consistently identifying eligible patients, documenting consent and required activities, tracking qualifying time, and connecting the work to billing-ready records. When these steps depend on manual entry or retrospective review, reimbursable activity may be missed.

Clinii provides an operational layer alongside the EHR to help teams capture qualifying activity, monitor documentation requirements throughout the month, and prepare billing-ready output. As patient navigation software built for operational and billing visibility, Clinii helps teams see what has been completed, what is missing, and what may be ready to bill.

How Clinii Supports PIN Requirements

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Eligibility and enrollment

Helps teams identify potentially eligible patients and organize enrollment, initiating-visit, and consent information.

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Person-centered assessment and action plan

Clinii Web provides a workspace alongside the EHR for assessments, action plans, and program requirements.

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Activity and time documentation

CareLink helps capture qualifying activity across supported EHR, phone, and browser workflows and associate documented time with the appropriate service.

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Patient communication and support

Connect-AI helps convert supported calls, messages, and outreach into notes, tasks, and documented activity.

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Navigation across care settings

Clinii Clinician supports documentation from the field, bedside, or between facilities.

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Monthly monitoring

Mid-month visibility helps teams see completed activity, missing requirements, and progress toward billing thresholds.

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Billing-ready records

Clinii organizes time logs, action-plan activity, patient contacts, and supporting documentation for billing review.

Manual PIN Documentation Compared With Clinii

Manual PIN workflows can require spreadsheets, duplicate documentation, and end-of-month reconstruction. Clinii helps reduce those manual processes so care teams can focus on patient navigation while operations leaders maintain visibility into documentation and reimbursement readiness.

Manual Process

With Clinii

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Manual time tracking

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Activity and time capture within supported workflows

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Month-end reconstruction

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Documentation created as supported activity occurs

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Missed qualifying interactions

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Greater visibility into documented qualifying interactions

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Disconnected systems

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One operational workflow alongside the EHR

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Limited program visibility

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Mid-month documentation and progress visibility

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Records assembled after the fact

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Records organized continuously to support audit readiness

Who Delivers PIN and Who Bills It

PIN services may be delivered by qualified auxiliary personnel under the general supervision of the billing physician or other qualified healthcare practitioner. The billing practitioner reports the service after the applicable requirements are met. Because the navigator performing the work and the practitioner billing for it may be different people, organizations need a reliable way to connect each qualifying interaction, documented minute, and required record.

Clinii helps connect supported navigation activity to the patient record, action plan, and billing workflow so teams can review complete documentation before claims are submitted.

Who Delivers PIN and Who Bills It

Core PIN Activities

Connect Patients Across a Fragmented Care System

Coordinate practitioners, facilities, home- and community-based services, and other resources connected to the patient's treatment plan. Clinii helps document supported coordination activity so it can be evaluated for billing rather than remaining untracked administrative work.

Build Care Around a Person-Centered Assessment

Document the patient's strengths, needs, goals, preferences, desired outcomes, and relevant social factors. Use that information to create and maintain a person-centered action plan aligned with the billing practitioner's treatment plan.

Provide Health Education and Patient Support

Support health-system navigation, patient self-advocacy, access to resources, and the behavioral, social, and emotional needs connected to the serious condition. Clinii helps teams capture supported outreach, education, and navigation activities as they occur.

Coordinate Transitions and Ongoing Follow-Up

Support communication across practitioners and care settings, coordinate needed services, and follow up on barriers that may disrupt treatment. Continuous documentation gives teams greater visibility into the patient's navigation journey.

Principal Illness Navigation Requirements

Organizations should establish a consistent process for confirming and documenting PIN requirements before billing. Requirements may include:

  • A qualifying serious, high-risk condition expected to last at least three months
  • An eligible initiating visit performed by the billing practitioner
  • Patient consent documented in the medical record, including an explanation of applicable cost-sharing
  • A person-centered assessment and action plan connected to the treatment plan
  • The amount of time spent and the nature of the qualifying activities performed
  • General supervision and applicable auxiliary-personnel training requirements
  • Unique time and work that are not counted toward another billed service

Coverage, eligibility, supervision, documentation, and billing requirements should be verified for each patient and payer before a claim is submitted.

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Principal Illness Navigation Billing Codes

Payment amounts and payer policies may change. Confirm current coverage and billing requirements before submitting claims.

HCPCS Code

G0023

Initial 60 minutes of standard Principal Illness Navigation services during a calendar month.

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HCPCS Code

G0024

Each additional 30 minutes of standard PIN services during the same calendar month. Reported with G0023.

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HCPCS Code

G0140

Initial 60 minutes of Principal Illness Navigation peer-support services during a calendar month.

HCPCS Code

G0146

Each additional 30 minutes of PIN peer-support services during the same calendar month. Reported with G0140.

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PIN Alongside Other Medicare Care Programs

PIN may be furnished in the same month as another Medicare care management service when the requirements for each service are independently met. The same time and work cannot be counted toward more than one billed service. Clinii gives organizations one place to manage documentation across PIN and other supported programs, helping teams distinguish activities and reduce the risk of duplicate time.

Why Choose Clinii

  • Use the care team and EHR workflows already in place
  • Help identify potentially eligible patients and organize enrollment requirements
  • Reduce manual time tracking and month-end reconstruction
  • Use agentic AI to support documentation within everyday workflows
  • Monitor progress and documentation gaps before month-end
  • Prepare organized, billing-ready records
  • Manage PIN alongside multiple Medicare care programs
  • Work alongside 25 EHRs without replacing the existing system
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Built to Improve PIN Performance

Clinii helps healthcare organizations turn qualifying care coordination into documented, billing-ready activity without increasing administrative burden. Operations and care management leaders gain greater visibility across eligibility, documentation, monthly progress, and reimbursement readiness while care teams continue working within familiar systems.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Principal Illness Navigation?

Principal Illness Navigation is a Medicare-covered service for patients with a serious, high-risk condition. It supports patient navigation, care coordination, access to resources, health-system navigation, and other qualifying activities connected to the practitioner’s treatment plan.

Who may provide and bill PIN services?

Qualified auxiliary personnel, including trained patient navigators, may provide PIN services under the general supervision of the billing physician or other qualified healthcare practitioner. The billing practitioner reports the service after the applicable requirements are met.

What patients may qualify for PIN?

PIN is intended for patients with a serious, high-risk condition expected to last at least three months and place the patient at significant risk of hospitalization, nursing-home placement, acute exacerbation or decompensation, functional decline, or death. Eligibility and coverage should be verified for each patient.

Does PIN require an initiating visit and patient consent?

Yes. PIN generally requires an eligible initiating visit by the billing practitioner. Patient consent must be documented in the medical record, and the patient should be informed that applicable Medicare cost-sharing may apply.

What must be documented for PIN billing?

Documentation should include the patient’s consent, qualifying condition, person-centered assessment and action plan, the amount of time spent, the nature of the activities performed, and how those activities relate to the treatment plan. Applicable supervision and personnel requirements must also be met.

How does Clinii support PIN documentation?

Clinii helps capture supported navigation activities and time, monitors monthly requirements, and organizes billing-ready documentation alongside the EHR workflow your team already uses.

Can PIN be provided with CCM, PCM, or another Medicare service?

PIN may be reported in the same month as another care management service when the requirements for each service are independently met. The same time and work cannot be counted toward more than one service.

What is the difference between standard PIN and PIN peer support?

Standard PIN codes G0023 and G0024 cover qualifying navigation services furnished by trained auxiliary personnel. G0140 and G0146 cover qualifying peer-support services for patients with serious, high-risk behavioral health conditions and require appropriately trained peer-support personnel.

See the Revenue Opportunity in Your Principal Illness Navigation Program

Clinii can help your organization identify potential PIN opportunities, strengthen documentation workflows, and understand where qualifying activity may be going uncaptured.

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