Compliance Question of the Week – Cardiology

What is the difference between CPT codes 93005 and 93041?

Does Medicare cover cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) scans for sarcoidosis (inflammation of the heart)?

We have a new facility that performs a two-day thallium viability scan. It is assigning codes 78451 and 78452 for this exam. Is this correct?

An adult patient with a double aortic arch had a heart catheterization/coronary angiogram performed. Should this be reported with the congenital or noncongenital CPT® codes?

Does Medicare pay for adenosine (J0153)?

When is it appropriate to use modifier 59?

Would non-selective codes be inclusive if a non selective angiography is performed during a cardia catheterization from the same access?

To assign codes 75625 and 75716 for an abdominal aortogram with lower extremity angiograms, what body parts must have been imaged?

When would it be correct to assign the code 93463?

When would it be correct to assign the code 93463?

If a patient has a diagnostic heart cath with IVUS one day and then is taken back to have intracoronary stents deployed with IVUS the next day, can IVUS be coded at both sessions?

If a patient comes into our hospital (probably in A-Fib), and an EKG confirms the A-Fib, then they are taken to the EP suite where a cardioversion is performed, are we allowed to code for the EKG with a 59 modifier?