OHIP Error Report code V09
Invalid Referral Number
Ontario Ministry of Health, Error Report Rejection Conditions
Where you’ll see it
On your Error Report. The claim was rejected before OHIP assessed it. Error Reports arrive within about 48 hours of a submission.
A submission or documentation step
Something about how the claim was submitted needs to change: a missing field, a manual-review indicator, supporting documentation, or prior approval. Follow the instruction in the ministry's description, then resubmit.
A rejected claim was never assessed, so the corrected claim goes back in as a new submission. The three-month limit still runs from the date of service, and a rejection doesn't reset it.
Our summary is a guide, not a ruling. The ministry’s wording and the current Schedule of Benefits are what OHIP applies. See OHIP Error Report vs Remittance Advice: reading the codes for how the two reports differ.
Related Error Report codes
- V05 · Error-Claim Number is less than Service Date
- V06 · Incorrect Clinic Code
- V07 · Invalid Practitioner Number
- V08 · Invalid Specialty Code: Specialty code is missing/not 2 numerics Not a valid specialty code Specialty code is 27 and provider number is not 599993 Specialty code is 90 and provider number is not 991000 Specialty code is 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 70 and 71 and the health care provider number does not begin with 4 Specialty code is 56 and health care provider number does not begin with 80 or 81 Specialty code is 80 or 81 and health care provider number does not begin with 82
- V10 · Patient's last name is missing/not alphabetic (A-Z) First field position is blank
- V12 · Patient's first name is missing/not alphabetic (A-Z) First field position is blank
- V13 · Patient's date of birth is missing/invalid format Month not in the range of 01-12 Not 8 numerics Day is outside acceptable range for month
- V14 · Patient sex must be '1' (male) or '2' (female)