Count on this comprehensive guide to the coding, documentation and billing of infusion and injection services to help you avoid mistakes and omissions that prevent you from achieving full payment and compliance.
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Is your documentation missing critical start and stop times for infusions? Are there medical necessity issues with your hydration therapy services? Which coding and billing missteps for drug administration are auditors targeting? These are just a few of the many scenarios that threaten infusion and injection service compliance and revenues nationwide, year after year.
When you’re equipped with the right resource, these high-risk situations are also highly avoidable. As its name implies, our Coding Essentials for Infusion & Injection Therapy Services provides clear-cut guidance through coding for a full range of infusion and injection services in all settings. But it also tackles the recurring issues and challenges that put your payments and compliance at risk, from missing crucial elements in documentation, to confusion surrounding current payer trends.
Our book delivers everything you need, starting with clear authoritative guidance from the American Medical Association (AMA) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), supplemented by plain-English explanations, quick tips, answers to FAQs, case examples and other tools. Our ultimate goal is to help you capture — and keep — the full, compliant payment for these high-volume services.
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Section 1: Fundamentals
Introduction
Chapter 1: Medicare Payment Primer
Chapter 2: Clinical Background
Chapter 3: Business Processes and Operations
Chapter 4: Charge Reconciliation and Auditing
Section 2: Hydration
Chapter 5: Hydration Therapy
Section 3: Drug Administration
Chapter 6: Intravenous Infusion
Chapter 7: Subcutaneous Infusions
Chapter 8: Injections: Intravenous
Chapter 9: Injections: Subcutaneous, Intramuscular, or Intra-arterial
Section 4: Chemotherapy
Chapter 10: Chemotherapy: Injections
Chapter 11: Chemotherapy: Intravenous Push
Chapter 12: Chemotherapy: Intravenous Infusion
Chapter 13: Chemotherapy: Other Modes of Administration
Chapter 14: Other Infusion Services: Implantable and Portable Drug Delivery Systems
Section 5: Other Procedures
Chapter 15: Blood Collection
Chapter 16: Transfusion of Blood and Blood Components
Chapter 17: Therapeutic Pheresis
Chapter 18: Declotting Vascular Access Device
Chapter 19: Vaccines and Toxoids
Chapter 20: Therapeutic Phlebotomy
Section 6: Pharmacy
Chapter 21: Coding for Drugs and Biologicals
Section 7: Observation
Chapter 22: Observation Accounts
Section 8: Frequently Asked Questions
Chapter 23: Frequently Asked Questions
Appendices
Appendix A: Correct Coding Edits for Hospital Outpatient Infusion Services
Appendix B: Correct Coding Edits for Practitioner Infusion Services
Appendix C: Avoiding Drug Name Confusion
Appendix D: Avoiding Error-Prone Drug Documentation
Appendix E: Coding for Drugs and Biologicals
Appendix F: Local Coverage Determination for Drugs and Biologicals
Appendix G: Table of Drugs
Appendix H: COVID-19 Vaccine and Infusions Coding Guidance
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