AMA CPT® Assistant - 2009 Issue 2 (February)

Infusion/Injection Services (February 2009)

February 2009 pages 17-21 Coding Update:Infusion/Injection Services One of the Frequently Asked Questions in this article has been corrected. Please see the correction article here. For CPT 2006, the drug administration codes were listed in three categories: hydration, therapeutic/prophylactic/ diagnostic, and chemotherapy. To assist users in correctly applying the codes, introductory text preceding each category of infusion/injection procedures defined the intraprocedural services, delineated the reporting of the codes in conjunction with other services and procedures, and provided instruction for physician reporting purposes (facility reporting information was added in CPT 2008). CPT codes for drug administration services reflected differences in...

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