Wiki intravitreal avastin coding help!

[Drodpete@yahoo.com]

I just read the new billing guidelines for bevacizumab on my noridian (medicare) site. It states to stop using the J3590 and use Q9977 to report the use of avastin. The problem is I have always used J9035. The article claims the new code Q9977 is for use of all compounded injectable drugs. Here is a link to the article I'm talking about.

https://med.noridianmedicare.com/we...aocular-bevacizumab-coding-billing-guidelines

So, should I be billing with the code I've always used or use the new code. We are looking into buying the avastin in single use injectable form that comes with a 1.25 mg dose in it.

Please shed some light on how I should proceed to bill for intravitreal avastin.

Thanks!

 

[stephmcp]

We get our avastin from a compounding pharmacy and bill with the j3590 code. I beleive the q code is old and not correct

 

[stephmcp]

well i just got off the phone with wps medicare and the code has been changed as of november 1st to the Q code. thank god i called before i sent my next round on injections through today!