CPT^® 96379, Under Therapeutic, Prophylactic, and Diagnostic Injections and Infusions (Excludes Chemotherapy and Other Highly Complex Drug or Highly Complex Biologic Agent Administration)

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 96379 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Therapeutic, Prophylactic, and Diagnostic Injections and Infusions (Excludes Chemotherapy and Other Highly Complex Drug or Highly Complex Biologic Agent Administration).

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Use 96379 to report therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic intravenous or intraarterial injection or infusion procedures that do not have a specific code.

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COVID-19 ADMINISTRATION CODE

My provider also does a normal saline with the covid infusion via IV. Should I be billing for that separately or is it wrapped in the M0243 cost? Can I bill for all these? [LIST] [*]RATE FLOW REGULAT... [ Read More ]

Therapeutic Infusion Queston

[QUOTE="poohbear223, post: 477972, member: 61792"] Good morning! We have been asked the question, "Can you code CPT 96379 for a second therapeutic infusion of the same medication that run less than 31... [ Read More ]

Therapeutic Infusion Queston

[QUOTE="thomas7331, post: 477979, member: 5404"] CPT Assistant suggests in one article that some payers may recognize 96379 to report an initial hydration infusion of less than 30 minutes, but I have ... [ Read More ]

Therapeutic Infusion Queston

CPT Assistant suggests in one article that some payers may recognize 96379 to report an initial hydration infusion of less than 30 minutes, but I have not seen any other guidance for the use of this c... [ Read More ]

Therapeutic Infusion Queston

[QUOTE="thomas7331, post: 477975, member: 5404"] I would not use 96379. Per CPT Assistant, December 2009, an additional infusion less than 30 minutes of the same drug should not be reported: "Since ... [ Read More ]

Therapeutic Infusion Queston

I would not use 96379. Per CPT Assistant, December 2009, an additional infusion less than 30 minutes of the same drug should not be reported: "Since the third infusion from 1:01 pm-1:15 pm is less t... [ Read More ]

Therapeutic Infusion Queston

Good morning! We have been asked the question, "Can you code CPT 96379 for a second therapeutic infusion of the same medication that run less than 31 minutes (i.e. 1-30 minutes)?" In my research, it l... [ Read More ]

Inpatient pediatric consults

[QUOTE="tammym7797, post: 458998, member: 611619"] Do pediatric consults (inpatient) get paid by most insurance companies? What if a pediatrician is consulted to hospital and only monitors IV antibio... [ Read More ]

Help with infusion codes

[QUOTE="melody.roth@regence.com, post: 449691, member: 293905"]For professional billing Infusions and IV push, should the infusate code be billed in addition to the infusion code? For Hospital Outpat... [ Read More ]

Auditor states drug ordered as IV over 2 minutes must have a doc stop time?

When its just an IV PUSH there does not need to be a stop time. If it truly was an IV drug hung for say 20 minutes yes there would need to be start and stop times but the PUSH IV drugs do not need t... [ Read More ]

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