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Nix Treatment Plan Code for Nuclear Medicine
Question: Should I report a clinical treatment plan code for a strontium injection? Answer: No. Therapeutic nuclear medicine service codes include services such as planning and dose assay. You should not report the following services separately: Instead, you should report the strontium injection with 79101 (Radiopharmaceutical therapy, by intravenous administration), which the physician most likely ordered to help patients with bone metastasis.
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- clinical treatment planning (such as 77261, Therapeutic radiology treatment planning; simple)
- handling the radiopharmaceutical (77790, Supervision, handling, loading of radiation source)
- dosimetry (such as 77300, Basic radiation dosimetry calculation -).
If your facility bears the cost of the drug, you should also report A9600 (Strontium Sr-89 chloride, therapeutic, per millicurie).
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