AMA CPT® Assistant - 2009 Issue 12 (December)

Medicine: Hydration, Therapeutic Infusion Services (December 2009)

December 2009 page 14a Bonus Feature:Medicine: Hydration, Therapeutic Infusion Services Question: A patient receiving an antibiotic infusion for an hour from 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm, leaves and returns 6 hours later for another infusion of the same antibiotic at 5:00 am the following morning. Is the 5:00 am dose considered a "sequential" or "initial" infusion? Ann Waters, RHIT, CCS Answer: For both physician and facility reporting, the choice of code depends on whether other infusion/injection service(s) is/are performed in addition to the 5:00 am antibiotic dose. If the 5:00 A.M. antibiotic dose was the only infusion service...

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