AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2008 Issue 2; FOR your INFORMATION

Four new HCPCS codes for drugs and biologicals

drugs and biologicals The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has created four (4) new HCPCS codes that became effective April 1, 2008. We have listed the new HCPCS codes in the Table listed below: HCPCS - Long descriptorQ4096 Injection, Von Willebrand factor complex, human, ristocetin cofactor (not otherwise specified), per i.u. VWF: RCOQ4097 Injection, immune globulin (Privigen), intravenous, nonlyophilized (e.g., liquid), 500 mgQ4098 Injection, iron dextran, 50 mgC9241 Injection, doripenem, 10 mg Q4097 was previously reported under HCPCS codes J1751, Injection, iron dextran 165, 50 mg, and J1752, Injection, iron dextran 267, 50 mg. Hospitals...

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