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Oncology & Hematology Coding Alert

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Follow Medicare Guidance for Drug Unit Reporting

Published on Fri Apr 23, 2021

Question: Our physician recently administered 146 mg of Eloxatin to help treat a patient’s colorectal cancer. What is the correct way to code this amount of the drug? Florida Subscriber Answer: Eloxatin is a brand name for oxaliplatin, an alkylating antineoplastic drug used to treat advanced cancers of the bowel, colon, or rectum. The HCPCS code for oxaliplatin is J9263 [...]
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