monabuck
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Hello. My fellow auditors and I have gone back and forth about this one, so asking the AAPC cloud mind. If you have a patient who is intubated and sedated with propofol while in the ED, and then flown out to another hospital (patient is NEVER IP at this site), do you charge the propofol as an I&I? Or do you treat it as not billable, since it's fundamental to keeping the patient on the vent? I'm tending to say you wouldn't bill it, but probably wrong. Any ideas? What does your ED do for "fly out" patients? Thanks so much!