Sequence 6991, Pre-Procedure Medications Administered, captures medications that were prescribed or administered to the patient within two weeks prior to and up to the start of the current procedure. The start of the current procedure is defined as what the date and time that is coded in Sequence 7000, Procedure Start Date and Time. All medications the patient was prescribed prior to arrival, regardless of the patient's compliance, as well as medications the patient received at your facility prior to the cath lab procedure should be captured. The notes of the coding instructions clarify to code no if a patient was given a sublingual, intravenous, or short-acting formula of one of these medications. As well, sites should code yes if the patient received an oral, long-acting formula of the medication after admission but prior to the start of the procedure. Provider documentation of a medical reason as to why a medication was not prescribed supports coding contraindicated in Sequence 6991. Exception, in scenarios where a pre-procedure medication is ordered or prescribed in the ASC or OBL, however, due to system reasons it was not administered to the patient, no would be coded for that medication.

pre-procedure medications

cath lab procedure

coding instructions

oral medications

contraindicated