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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....
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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 ...
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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...
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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?
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When reporting drugs with a revenue code 0636 on a UB-92, the instructions are as follows: “Revenue code 0636 relates to HCPCS code, so HCPCS is the recommended code to be used in FL 44. The spec...
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Based on the 2005 OPPS Final Rule we have instructed our staff to code simple repair using dermabond to CPT codes 12001-12021 for the procedure, and code G0168 for the tissue adhesive, for dates of...
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The doctor prescribed morphine to be given to the patient for pain relief. The nurse injects a small amount of morphine into the IV. This process will be repeated until the morphine level is suffic...
The injectio...
This patient was sent to radiology with a request to check the patency of a cath. The report reads “Contrast was injected through the patient’s left sided port-a-cath. The tip is within the SVC...
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Susceptibility studies were performed on two different organisms. We reported CPT codes 87184 and 87186. However, we get an NCCI edit “mutually exclusive procedures that would be allowed if the a...
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