AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2021 Issue 1; For Your Information

Clarification: Administration of Spinraza®

The Central Office has received requests for clarification of the advice published in the First Quarter 2020 issue of Coding Clinic for HCPCS, Page 11, regarding the code assignment for the intrathecal administration of the drug Spinraza® (nusinersen). At the time the Coding Clinic for HCPCS Editorial Advisory Board reviewed the question, it was determined that since Spinraza® is not classified as a chemotherapeutic agent, the correct code assignment was CPT code 62322, Injection(s), of diagnostic or therapeutic substance(s) (eg, anesthetic, antispasmodic, opioid, steroid, other solution), not including neurolytic substances, including needle or catheter placement, interlaminar epidural or subarachnoid...

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