Wiki Medicare Billing for Hospital Infusions

[StephenAlexander]

What procedure codes would I use to bill for a hospital inpatient receiving Ceftriaxone 1 gram IV (J0696) and Zithromax 500 mg IV (J0456), once a day for 10 days?

Same patient, but receiving the infusion via outpatient hopital infusion center - OPPS (Medicare)?

 

[Icode4U]

Is this a trick question?

Inpatient services are paid by DRG weight, the only procedure codes used are ICD-9 four digit procedure codes.

 

[mitchellde]

I am curious if you are coding for the facility. An inpatient coder will use the ICD-9 volume 3 codes for the procedures. An outpatient coder will probably not code these at all, every outpatient facility I have worked in across the US, have infusion codes driven thru the chargemaster. So it is curious as to the nature of your question and in what capacity you work, as in facility or physician based.