Whether liver neoplasm is primary or secondary will change your coding.

Good news: You can apply many of the same rules you already know for intravenous chemotherapy coding to intra-arterial coding, too. So take your chemo coding expertise to the next level by adding intra-arterial skills to your arsenal.

Start here: For intra-arterial (IA) chemotherapy, you should choose from the following codes, says Gwen Davis, CPC, associate with Washington-based Derry, Nolan, and Associates.

• 96420 — Chemotherapy administration, intra-arterial; push technique
• 96422 — … infusion technique, up to 1 hour
• +96423 — … infusion technique, each additional hour, (List separately

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