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Add Accuracy To Your Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy Coding

Published on Mon Aug 19, 2013

Tip: Keep focus on push, pump, and infusion. When reporting treatment of primary liver cancer or secondary metastasis to liver, you’ll forfeit pay if you don’t correctly report the intra-arterial (IA) chemotherapy. The technique involves direct administration of the drug in to the artery. You have four simple codes to choose from and here are four tips to further simplify [...]
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