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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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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...
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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...
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 ...