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Our hospital outpatient department has been receiving denials on claims for patients receiving a Procrit intramuscular/subcutaneous shot on the same day that they receive chemotherapy services. Wha...
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We are receiving National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) edits when we report CPT code 90772, Therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic injection (specify substance or drug); subcutaneous or in...
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A patient was scheduled for a computed tomography (CT) of both legs with contrast, at our facility. Although both legs were injected with contrast, the physician decided that only a CT scan of the ...
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A patient arrived in the emergency department (ED) with an intravenous (IV) hydration infusion that was started in the field. The IV hydration infusion was administered for a total of 45 minutes in...
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A patient had an outpatient complete 2D transthoracic echocardiogram performed at our facility. The patient was discharged but later that day she experienced chest pain and returned to the emergenc...
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A patient was seen in the emergency department (ED) for abdominal pain of the left lower quadrant.
The patient received a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen with injection of con...
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A patient was seen in the emergency department (ED) and received an intravenous infusion for 75 minutes and an intramuscular (IM) injection. What are the appropriate code assignments for this case?...
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A patient was seen in an outpatient cancer clinic and received 75 minutes of chemotherapy by infusion and then 25 minutes of hydration before she was discharged. How should this case be reported?
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Our facility has been receiving denials for claims that contain HCPCS code C8952, Therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic injection; intravenous push of each new substance/drug, with HCPCS...
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One drug is administered to an emergency department (ED) patient for 10 minutes at multiple times as an IV push and then another drug is given multiple times as IM/SQ.
Should these services b...
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