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December 2007 Vol. 9, No. 12IN THIS ISSUE ED procedure coding: William Malm, ND, RN, and Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, discuss documentation tips ..5 Injections/infusions: Learn about prefilled saline syringes and time-specific drug codes ..7 News in brief: Get up to date on the 2008 OIG Work Plan ..8 NDC reporting requirement creates burden for hospitalsUnderstand that NDC requirement applies to Medicaid claims> continued on p. 2 The use of the national drug code (NDC) to report medications is not a new concept for Medicaid claims, but it recently has become a more acute Medicaid programs are required as of January 2008 to start reporting NDCs. If these Medicaid pro-grams do not report NDCs to CMS and the drug com-panies, CMS will not provide reimbursement to , meeting this requirement will not be easy; chargemaster updates and manual auditing re-quirements could create headaches for hospital coding and charging staff NDC reporting problemsAccording to Claudia Birkenshaw, executive vice president of BridgeFront in Portland, OR, the NDC number serves as a universal product identifier for drug products.

December 2007 Vol. 9, No. 12 IN THIS ISSUE ♦ ED procedure coding: William Malm, ND, RN, and Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, discuss documentation tips .....5 ♦ Injections/infusions: Learn about prefilled saline syringes

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