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A ‘bolus” is defined as a single, large dose of medication usually injected into a blood vessel over a short period of time and is billed as an intravenous (IV) push per CPT coding guidelines....
Lactated rin...
How should we report three different substances that are bagged and administered via three separate IV pushes? Each administration is 15 minutes or less in duration. Should we report as one unit or...
Report C8952...
We are receiving NCCI edits when HCPCS codes C8952, Therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic injections; intravenous push and C8950, Intravenous infusion for therapy/diagnosis; up to 1 ...
The Centers ...
If a blood sample for laboratory testing is obtained by accessing a pre-existing partially implanted catheter (eg, Hickman, PICC, or Groshong), is the collection of the specimen reported with CPT c...
There is not...
Is it appropriate for an outpatient facility to report multiple colonoscopy codes from the same family of codes, for two or more procedures performed on the same patient by the same physician?
...It would be ...
Would an incision have to be made in order to report CPT codes 28190-28193 when coding emergency department visits on the facility side? For example: A a nail shot through his foot by a nail gun. T...
To report CP...
A patient presents as an outpatient for an endoscopic polypectomy. Anesthesia was administered and the colonoscopy was begun however because of poor colon preparation the colon could not be examine...
Report CPT c...
A patient underwent an aortoiliac and femoral angiogram in addition to a selective left renal angiogram at our facility.
Would it be appropriate to code fluoroscopic imaging with the angiogra...
Yes, it woul...
A 72-year old patient with severe multivessel coronary artery disease, status post redo coronary artery bypass surgery, is seen at our facility to undergo a left heart catheterization with right an...
No, it would...
A patient presents for pre-admit screening prior to a gastrointestinal (GI) scope.
During the pre-admit process, the patient is found to have a past history of subacute bacterial endocarditis...
No, it would...