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90772 Edits Continue Anew

Published on Thu Mar 12, 2009

Question: A family physician admitted a patient to the hospital and ordered a Penicillin injection for the patient that a nurse administered. In 2008, the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) did not allow reporting 90772 with 99221-99223. In 2009, does CMS allow reporting CPT's new injection code in addition to the hospital care? North Carolina Subscriber Answer: No, the current version of CCI (version 15.0, effective Jan. 1, 2009) carries over the same edits that applied to 90772 and inpatient care codes to new injection code 96372 (Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection [specify substance or drug]; subcutaneous or intramuscular). CPT 2009 brought renumbered infusion and injection codes (96360, 96365, 96372, 96374, and +96375), and CCI 15.0 responds by bundling these codes into all observation (99217-99220, 99234-99236), hospital (99221-99233, 99238-99239), inpatient consultation (99251-99255), emergency department (99281-99285), nursing facility care (99304-99337), home services (99341-99350), newborn care services (99460-99463), and inpatient neonatal intensive care [...]
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