CPT^® 86850, Under Transfusion Medicine Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 86850 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Transfusion Medicine Procedures.

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The lab analyst performs a screening test using patient blood to determine the presence of any antibodies to red blood cells, called RBCs, other than the A and B antigens.

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Bundling Denial

I have three codes on the claim 86850, 86900 and 86901. The only code that paid was 86900. Not sure what is going on? Thanks for the help!... [ Read More ]

Blood Transfusion Help!

Hello Everyone, I work for an Oncology Institute with Multiple providers and recently we have started doing blood transfusions. We collect the blood at our clinics and then send them to an outside la... [ Read More ]

consolidation question

[SIZE="2"]80055 ? OBSTETRICS PANEL[/SIZE] [SIZE="1"]CPT? 80055: OBSTETRIC PANEL THIS PANEL MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: BLOOD COUNT, COMPLETE (CBC), AUTOMATED AND AUTOMATED DIFFERENTIAL WBC COUNT (850... [ Read More ]

Hospital billing for Blood transfusion

I code for a hospital outpatient infusion center that handles blood transfusions and iron infusions. From what I see for the transfusions, you are correct and a 36430 is used in addition to charges fo... [ Read More ]

Injection - separately from the PPD test

Although I do not have a reference.... I have only coded the 86850 for PPD's...if you were to code 86850 in conjunction with CPT 96372 for a Medicare patient an edit would be generated indicating 868... [ Read More ]

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