Cardiology Question for the Week of December 5, 2022
Bryan Nordley
December 5, 2022
Is code 92973 the appropriate code for aspiration of a thrombus within a coronary vessel?
Is code 92973 the appropriate code for aspiration of a thrombus within a coronary vessel?
What is the difference between MLST and MWT?
The ED physician ordered NS 1000 ml @ 250 ml/hr and CT abdomen with contrast. Are we able to code 96360 for the IV hydration?
Can we code diagnoses with terms documented such as “probable,” and “suspected?”
When do we report codes 99453 and 99454?
When testing is conducted on a single specimen source such as urine, do we need to report a modifier?
For Medicare hospital billing, if a planned PTCA is attempted but the balloon cannot be advanced across the lesion, can we bill for the attempted angioplasty?
For postmortem examination coding, how are the terms of newborn, infant, and macerated stillborn defined?
What is the difference between oral hydration and intravenous hydration therapy?
May we bill G codes to bill for the demonstration of a nebulizer or an inhaler device?
What is the Saving Access to Laboratory Service Act?
A diagnostic cardiac catheterization is performed demonstrating two-vessel coronary disease. Due to contrast load, the procedure is staged. A lesion in the LAD is treated by a DES at the initial session and the right coronary lesion is treated at a separate encounter. Can the injection of the coronary arteries during the second encounter be coded and billed with
code 93454 (coronary angiography only)?
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