You Be the Coder: Are 3 Drugs in 1 Bag Concurrent?

Question: The patient presents for chemotherapy (57-minute infusion). Staff mixed three non-chemo drugs in a single bag and administered them during a 45-minute infusion prior to chemotherapy. How should I code this? I'm confused about whether I should report concurrent infusion code +96368.

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Answer: Your "initial" code for this case should be 96413 (Chemotherapy administration, intravenous infusion technique; up to 1 hour, single or initial substance/drug). This code describes up to an hour of chemotherapy infusion.

For the three drugs mixed in a single bag and infused subsequent to 96413, you should report a single unit of +96367 (Intravenous infusion, [...]

- Published on 2012-01-17