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Can You Calculate Lucentis Units?

Published on Fri Mar 20, 2020

Question: Can you provide any advice about how many units of Lucentis® to report when the ophthalmologist injects it? Texas Subscriber Answer: The answer will depend on how many milligrams of the drug the physician injected. To determine how many units of J2778 (Injection, ranibizumab, 0.1 mg) to report, always check the documentation — then calculate how many units of [...]
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