Compliance Question of the Week – Cardiology

If non-selective renal angiography is performed at the time of a diagnostic cardiac catheterization, should level ll HCPCS code G0275 be reported? Is this code for hospitals or physician billing? Is this code for Medicare or non-Medicare patients?

Is angioplasty included in code 36903?

Can ablation codes be reported with code 93624 if performed during the same session on the same day?

What code do I report for a comprehensive electrophysiologic evaluation with the induction of arrhythmia?

A diagnostic cardiac catheterization is performed demonstrating two-vessel coronary disease. Due to the contrast load, the procedure is staged. A lesion in the LAD is treated by a DES at the initial session and the right coronary lesion is treated at a separate encounter. Can the injection of the coronary arteries during the second encounter be coded and billed with code 93454 (coronary angiography only)?

What is the peri-anastomotic region?

What code do I report for an EP study for the evaluation of a subcutaneous implantable defibrillator?

When is it useful to do an MRA and CA to evaluate peripheral arteries?

Do you have any guidance on code 33367

Is code 93567 to be coded only for an aortic root or ascending aortic imaging? If a true, diagnostic abdominal (75625) or thoracic (75605) aortogram is performed at the same time as a diagnostic cardiac cath study should the S&I code from the Radiology section of CPT® continue to be submitted in addition to the diagnostic heart cath codes instead of 93567?

We are performing a dialysis fistulagram that doesn’t require further intervention within the peripheral segment of the dialysis circuit. What code would I report for this circumstance and would I need a modifier?

What code would I report for EP study to evaluate a pacemaker?