Cardiology Question for the Week of December 9, 2019
Do you have any additional guidance for echocardiography performed with contrast in a hospital setting from last week’s question?
Do you have any additional guidance for echocardiography performed with contrast in a hospital setting from last week’s question?
What codes do I report for echocardiography performed with contrast in the hospital setting?
Do you have any guidance for 93025?
What is the difference between 92943 and 92944?
Do you have any guidance on the required documentation for duplex scans?
During an acute MI, a coronary angiogram and angioplasty were performed on a patient. Code 92941 specifies “any combination of intracoronary stent, atherectomy and angioplasty, including aspiration thrombectomy when performed, single vessel.” Since we only performed angioplasty, do I code 92920 instead of 92941?
Do the cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) codes include wall motion (WM) and ejection fraction (EF)?
When billing for a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG), is there a different CPT® code for patients that have Medicare? If so, what are the appropriate codes?
Do we code Q9950 when the doctor performs an echocardiogram at the hospital, or will the hospital code that?
Do the cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) codes include wall motion (WM) and ejection fraction (EF)?
If one of my cardiology offices does a two-day SPECT study, rest on one day, and stress on another, can they bill 78452 twice?
How is the following scenario coded? A patient undergoes PTCA and bare-metal stenting of the LC OM1 via an SVG and an additional PTCA and bare metal stent of an OM2 lesion via a completely separate SVG.
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