AMA CPT® Assistant - 2008 Issue 7 (July)

Medicine/Physician and Facility Reporting with Hydration and Drug Administration Procedures in the Facility (July 2008)

July 2008 page 13-end Medicine/Physician and Facility Reporting with Hydration and Drug Administration Procedures in the Facility, 90772 (Q&A) Question: Are there special rules in CPT 2008 for Infusion/Chemotherapy that apply to facilities only? Answer: Yes, the guidelines for the therapeutic infusion services have been revised to assist in the use of these codes for reporting infusions in the facility setting. Instructions have been added to indicate the hierarchy for reporting multiple services in the facility setting. For facilities, these guidelines supersede parenthetical notes beneath several of the add-on codes. As noted above, instructions following code 90772 have...

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