A patient presents for percutaneous transfemoral TAVR. Upon completion of TAVR, a dissection is noted in the common femoral access vessel. This is treated with angioplasty and stent. Is it appropriate to code CPT 37221 for the femoral artery angioplasty and stenting in addition to the TAVR, CPT 33361®?
What is the difference between codes 31640, 31641, and 31643?
What revenue code or codes do you use when coding for blood transfusions? Does it matter which blood product is used?
How do you code for an abdominal aortogram/lower extremity angiography during a cardiac catheterization?
For billing chemotherapy infusions, what determines the selection of the primary CPT® code?
If the documentation doesn’t state the origin for 20551, should we code 20550?
Would you use 64450 for a femoral cutaneous nerve block?
Do 94667 and 94668 apply to the demonstration of the patient’s utilization of a flutter valve device?
If you do the AHG technique, do you report all three of the codes, or just
86922?
How would we bill the concurrent IV administration of one chemotherapy drug and one non-chemotherapy when the drugs are given with separate bags at the same site?
If a patient is brought to the cardiac cath lab and only bypass grafts were visualized (for example, SVG [saphenous vein graft] to the right coronary artery [RCA], and SVG to the circumflex) with no native coronary arteries being injected or imaged, what is the appropriate CPT® procedure to code/charge?
Upper extremity interventional radiology coding can be a sinking area of challenge for coders and professionals alike with a quicksand of complexities that may leave
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