tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2016 Issue 10

You Be the Coder: Code It Right For Autologous Blood Transfusion

Question: What is the correct way to work out claims for outpatient autologous blood transfusions? Do we use different codes for the collection and transfusion of blood? Ohio Subscriber Answer: As you may be aware, collection and transfusion of blood are different procedures and therefore need to be coded separately. Autologous means cells or tissues harvested from the same individual. Autologous blood transfusion means collecting and storing a person’s blood, and transfusing his blood back to him whenever he is in need of blood transfusion. For the collection of autologous blood, you submit CPT® code 86890 (Autologous blood...

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