AMA CPT® Assistant - 2018 Issue 12 (December)
Medicine: Hydration, Therapeutic, Prophylactic, Diagnostic Injections and Infusions, and Chemotherapy (Q&A) (December 2018)
December 2018 page 9a Medicine: Hydration, Therapeutic, Prophylactic, Diagnostic Injections and Infusions, and Chemotherapy Question: Is it correct to report code 96376 for a subsequent infusion of the same medication that is administered within 25 minutes of an initial 35-minute infusion that was initially reported with code 96365? The subsequent infusion was pushed 16 minutes after the initial infusion. Answer: No, administration of the same drug in the same intravenous (IV) site 30 minutes or less apart from the initial administration would not be reported separately. Based on the instructional parenthetical note for code 96376, which states, "Do not...
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