Nuclear Medicine

We are imaging for sarcoidosis, can you please tell us which CPT® codes to report?

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?

What is the purpose of the HOPPS add-on payment adjustment for non-highly enriched uranium (non-HEU) sources, and when did this policy first take effect? What is the status for 2024?

For a gastric emptying imaging study, what code would we report if a dual-radiopharmaceutical technique is utilized to obtain both solid and liquid-phase studies in the same session or on the same day?

Can we report code 78445 when performing whole-body flow imaging followed by a whole-body bone scan?

What code would be used to report beta-amyloid plaque imaging?

Does 78429 include CT for both attenuation correction and anatomic localization? Can we charge separately for diagnostic CT imaging?

When should we bill for one acquisition vs two acquisitions when reporting 78803?

What code do we report for a gastrointestinal bleed study when planar and SPECT images are
performed to localize a small bleeding site?