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.
Can extremity angiography codes 75710 and 75716 be assigned for selective and non-selective imaging?
For inhalation treatments, what defines an episode of care?
Can we code 55706 for a the gross and microscopic examination of prostate biopsies taken during traditional transrectal ultrasound procedures?
What are some examples of documentation indications for medically necessary fluid replacement for hydration therapy?
What differences do we need to know when reporting 88305 vs. 88307?
Are both 94640 and 94664 reportable during the same encounter?
Question: How much needs to be imaged and described in the report in order to report extremity angiography codes? Answer:
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?
How do we code and bill for adenosine when we do not use the entire vial on a Medicare patient? Also, does this policy apply to radiopharmaceuticals or for all single-use administered drugs and diagnostic or therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals?
Can we bill for the administration of nitrous oxide during labor and delivery or for other minor procedures performed at bedside?
What code do we report for sentinel lymph nodes?
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