Wiki Hydration, IV, IVP.... Help with proper order in certain circumstances

[kgunders@umich.edu]

If hydration is started on a patient early in the day and then either later that day or the next an IVP is performed, would the hydration remain primary or would it be changed to have the IVP primary, even though the hydration was done much earlier in the timeline? And if you add IV's or chemo IVs to the mix, how does that fit in? Do you code timeline based or soley on the book rules for coding? Are there any exceptions?

 

[kmuerth]

If hydration is started on a patient early in the day and then either later that day or the next an IVP is performed, would the hydration remain primary or would it be changed to have the IVP primary, even though the hydration was done much earlier in the timeline? And if you add IV's or chemo IVs to the mix, how does that fit in? Do you code timeline based or soley on the book rules for coding? Are there any exceptions?


There are instructions in the CPT book starting after CPT code 96155 in the medicine section that can guide you. I used to write out the hierarchy for my own personal use. Start and stop times and locations of the IV sites are most important after the hierarchy.