tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2017 Issue 8

Reader Question: How to Code Overlapping Infusions

Question: I’ve been noticing a lot of situations where nurses schedule infusions at overlapping times. This makes it difficult to bill for each procedure. For example: A nurse administers: Paclitaxel from 13:26-14:30, Dexamethasone from 12:40-13:00, Diphenhydramine from 12:55-13:15, and Famotidine from 13:10-13:30. With overlapping infusion times like this, how should I code to accurately reflect all infusions? Florida Subscriber Answer: For your initial infusion code, Paclitaxel, you will use the code 96413(Chemotherapy administration, intravenous infusion technique; up to one hour, single or initial substance/drug) for the time administering the drug @ 13:26-14:30. For the infusion of Dexamethasone @...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert.


TCI's Outpatient Facility Coding Alert helps your facility stay profitable by covering issues that are important to you — everything from billing strategies and appropriate payment indicators to coding tips and tricks, analysis of industry trends, and so much more. Subscribe today and let our experts make your job easier.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 650 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 2012 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles

This feature is currently unavailable for online purchase. For more information, please call 801-770-4203 or Contact Us.

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.