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CPT code 96374 is for an intramuscular or subcutaneous injection as an intravenous push. The coder should also indicate what drug was used.
z-track is used during intramuscular injection to reduce irritation.
CPT medicine code 90772 has been deleted. CPT instructs to use code 96372 which is used for a: Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection (specify substance or drug); subcutaneous or intramuscular.
Typically the gluteus maximus (sp?) - your rear end.
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The code I would use is 20600.
There are both intramuscular and subcutaneous versions of Depo Provera. IM is more commonly used in the US.
CPT 90784 -- "Therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic injection (specify material injected); intravenous".Remember that 90784, as well as therapeutic injection code 90782 (... subcutaneous or intramuscular), covers each injection but not the drug administered. For example, if your physician administers both Demerol (J2175) and Phenergan (Q0170), during the treatment of breast cancer (174.x), you should list only one injection code, such as 90784.
It is where you pull the skin down or up and hold it there until you give the injection. Then you release it and it is supposed to make it so that the medication does not come back out onto the skin. This is usually used for medication that is irritating to the skin.
Medical code 90371 is used to refer to a Hepatitis B immune globulin injection. You should expect to pay around 100 dollars for the injection and the doctor office visit.
A j code is used
Procaine is a local anasthetic drug of the amino ester group. It is used primarily to reduce the pain of intramuscular injection of panicillin, and is also used in dentistry. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocaine