melheffley
Networker
I need to get some feedback/information regarding compounded drugs. We have in the past been buying Depo-Provera for our patients. Recently, there has been a large increase in the cost of the Depo causing us to actually loose money on each injection. There are pharmacies that provide "compounded Depo" at a significantly lower expense. We are being told by the compounding pharmacy that this is able to be billed with the same HCPCS (J1055) as the Depo-Provera. Does anyone have any experiance or information regarding this?? I asked the compounding pharmacy for the NDC number and was told that the compound does not have an NDC but they gave me a NDC for the powdered ingrediant. This makes me nervous to bill J1055 since what we are getting does not have a NDC. Also, the NDC I was given (for the powder included in the compound) is not listed on the NDC crosswalk for J1055. We have spoken to a couple other offices and they indicate that they are still billing the J1055 even though they are using the compounded drug. Any help of links to information would be very greatly appreciated!!!