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Don’t Let These HCPCS S Codes Give You Heartburn

Published on Wed Mar 17, 2021

Question: We want to bill Medicare for Protonix and Pepcid given to our patients in the office intravenously. How should we go about doing that? Alabama Subscriber Answer: The problem with billing S0164 (Injection, pantoprazole sodium, 40 mg) for Protonix and S0028 (Injection, famotidine, 20 mg) for Pepcid is that Medicare will not pay on either code. That’s because HCPCS [...]
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