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Wiki 96445 with Medicare patients

Thread starter lking
Start date Oct 10, 2008

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lking

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Oct 10, 2008

I have a situation of surgeon doing the administrion of peritoneal chemotherapy after but in the same session as a colectomy 44140 44139
we billed 96445 and Medicare is lumping this code into an lcd and it must be billed with a J code, but this is an in patient case and we are not billing for the drugs. Has anyone come accross this situation?
Help please and thanks in adbance

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