tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2019 Issue Q3

Reader Question: Know the Hydration Rules

Question: A 92-year-old nursing home patient arrived at the ED via ambulance showing symptoms such as dizziness and confusion; the emergency medical technician said that the patient had been complaining of extreme thirst. During the examination, the physician diagnosed dehydration and conducted a 33-minute intravenous rehydration. Can I report the hydration for this patient? Our billing service said it isn’t billable in the facility setting, so we aren’t sure whether we can report it. Supercoder Subscriber Answer: Your billing service is correct in that physicians cannot report 96360 (Intravenous infusion, hydration; initial, 31 minutes to 1 hour)...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert.


You have ED coding questions, and we deliver money-in-the-bank answers to help you defeat your claim issues and secure optimal reimbursement.

Stay in the know and avoid federal reproach with your subscription to TCI’s ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 2100 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 1998 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.