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Infusion

Thread starter jbucher1
Start date Jul 6, 2016

jbucher1

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Jul 6, 2016

In an ED setting...a nurse draws blood and then places a hepwell in case they need to access the vein again. Later the ED physician orders an infusion. Is it appropriate to code for both the blood draw (36415) and the infusion (96365, in this case)?

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