Cardiology Coding Alert
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Don't Lose Heart Trying to Differentiate CPT's Cardiac Monitoring Series
Published on Thu Aug 18, 2005
Use this chart to report the right technology code every time
When a patient complains of heart palpitations or flutter, your cardiologist may want to constantly monitor the patient's heart over a period of 24 hours so she can see and analyze irregular rhythms. For this time period, the patient wears a beeper-size box that measures and records heart activity.
Coding translation: Depending on what kind of cardiac monitoring technology this beeper-size box uses, you'll have to choose between three closely related code series - 93224-93227, 93230-93233, and 93235-93237. The following chart breaks down the characteristics of each cardiac monitoring code set. 
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