Compliance Question of the Week – Cardiology

In a hospital or outpatient setting who should be billing for Definity when administered for a stress echo with contrast if the office does not own the equipment? Here are the options we’ve come up with:

Physician bills CPT® code 93352
Hospital bills HCPCS code C8930
Both bill Q9957 for the contrast

Is it appropriate to code for the insertion of a temporary pacemaker and a generator change at the same setting?

What electrophysiology code would be reported for atrial flutter ablation?

Is it appropriate to code for the insertion of a temporary pacemaker and a generator change at the same setting?

With calcium scoring, 76376 is bundled; however, 76377 can be assigned with a modifier. My radiologists always do the reformation of images for these studies on a separate workstation. With proper documentation, can I assign the following code on those studied?

76377 3D rendering with interpretation and reporting of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, or other tomographic modality with image postprocessing under concurrent supervision; requiring image postprocessing on an independent workstation

Can mitral valvuloplasty (92987) be billed with the transseptal puncture code (93462)?

92987 Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty; mitral valve
+93462 Left heart catheterization by transseptal puncture through intact septum or by transapical puncture (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure)

I am looking for the correct codes to assign when our provider documents that bilateral selective carotid artery angiogram and intracerebral artery angiogram were performed followed by selective left subclavian artery and left vertebral artery angiogram. Would the correct coding be CPT® 36223-50 and 36226-LT? Or would it be 36223-50 and 36225-LT?

Can you please provide information about Medicare billing for cardiac device replacement claims?

How is the following scenario coded? A patient undergoes angioplasty and bare metal stenting of a distal LC lesion through a vein graft followed by the placement of a separate drug-eluting stent in the proximal native vessel via a separate access.

When using intravenous ultrasound (IVUS) for sequential lesions in the distal left main (LM) and proximal left anterior descending (LAD), intervention consisted of single stent. Is IVUS billed as initial 92978, or is it initial 92978 and additional 92979?

Can we bill the following injection codes for drug administration during a cardiac catheterization procedure?

96373 Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection (specify substance or drug); intra-arterial
96374 Therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic injection (specify substance or drug); intravenous push, single or initial substance/drug

In the instance when more than one site in the same vessel is treated with percutaneous transluminal coronary thrombectomy (+92973), is it appropriate to report for each site treated?