Cardiology Question for the Week of September 22, 2025
What is a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)?
What is a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD)?
What is an IABP, and why is it used?
When reporting code 93503, should vascular access, catheter insertion, positioning, and removal all be separately documented, or are they included in the primary code?
What is the purpose behind codes +93571 and +93572?
Under what conditions should we not report 93566? Are there specific codes that cannot be reported with it?
How would you code for the following in a hospital setting? An interventional cardiologist places three drug-eluting stents, one in the left circumflex and another in the obtuse marginal branch. A third DES stent is deployed within the left anterior descending coronary artery.
An interventional cardiologist performs a PTCA in the LAD, an atherectomy in the RCA, and places a drug-eluting stent in the left circumflex artery (LC). How would we code for this in a physician setting?
An interventional cardiologist deploys a bare metal stent within the LAD and performs angioplasty within both the LC coronary artery and the RCA. What codes do we report for a hospital setting?
An interventional cardiologist performs a PTCA in the LAD followed by drug-eluting stent placement in the same vessel; subsequently, the physician next performs a PTCA in the RCA. How would we code for this scenario?
Can code 78802 be reported when performing imaging using bone agents for inflammatory disease?
An interventional cardiologist performs a PTCA in the LAD artery. The physician also performed angioplasty in the diagonal side branch of the patient’s LAD at the same session. How would we bill this in a hospital setting?
What are the circumstances that will meet the requirements for assigning 93458?
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