Medical Coding

Answer: C - 86985 is the correct code for splitting of blood or blood products for each unit. If more than one unit was needed to be split, then this code would be multiplied by however many units were required for the patient.

Code 86965 is incorrect because this code is for pooling of platelets or other blood products. Code 86975 is incorrect because this code is for pretreatment of serum for use in RBC antibody identification using incubation with drugs. Code 86999 is incorrect because this code is for unlisted transfusion medicine procedure, but there was a specific code available for the splitting of blood or blood products.