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Hold the Line on Additional IV Infusion Time

Published on Wed Nov 18, 2020

Question: Notes indicate that my provider performed an intravenous (IV) infusion for therapy. The infusion lasted an hour and 46 minutes and involved a single substance. I reported 96365 x 2 and received a denial. What went wrong here? Ohio Subscriber Answer: You should have used a different code to represent the second block of infusion time. Your code choice for the [...]
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