AMA CPT® Assistant - 2007 Issue 12 (December)

Medicine (December 2007)

December 2007 page 15b Bonus Feature:Medicine Question: A patient is admitted to observation and the physician orders an antibiotic IVPB administered over one hour and repeated every eight hours. The patient receives the first dose from 12 pm to 1 pm and the next dose from 8 pm to 9 pm. Would this be reported with codes 90765 and 90767? Answer: The facility may report code 90765, Intravenous infusion, for therapy, prophylaxis, or diagnosis (specify substance or drug); initial, up to 1 hour, for the first intravenous infusion of the antibiotic and code 90767, Intravenous infusion, for therapy, prophylaxis...

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