Does anyone have a policy or expertise on if hospitals can charge iv's blood transfusions, and medication administration outside of the normal room and board charges? Medicare has conflicting information.
- CMS Routine Services: They include the regular room, dietary and nursing services, minor medical and surgical supplies, medical social services, psychiatric social services, and the use of certain equipment and facilities for which a separate charge is not customarily made to Medicare Part A. Many nursing services provided by the floor nurse (such as IV infusions and injections, blood administration, and nebulizer treatments, etc.) may or may not have a separate charge established depending upon the classification of an item or service as routine or ancillary among providers of the same class in the same State.
- MLN Matters SE1333 states: Examples of routine nursing services that are captured in the Room and Board rate include patients that receive from the floor nurse IV infusions and injections, blood administration, and nebulizer treatments. These services are not separately billable Inpatient Part B services.