AMA CPT® Assistant - 2005 Issue 1 (January)

Medicine (January 2005)

January 2005 page 47a Coding Consultation:Questions and Answers Medicine, 95990 (Q&A) Question If a patient comes in for refill and maintenance of a pump providing spinal infusion of a medication and a nurse provides the service, how is this service reported? AMA Comment From a CPT coding perspective, it would be appropriate to report CPT code 95990, Refilling and maintenance of implantable pump or reservoir for drug delivery, spinal (intrathecal, epidural) or brain (intraventricular). Code 95990 is used to report refilling and maintenance of implantable pumps or reservoirs for spinal and brain drug delivery to specifically identify drug...

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