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Cardiology Coding Alert

Correction:

Stent Placement and Modifier -26

Published on Thu Feb 01, 2001

The December and January issues of Cardiology Coding Alert erroneously reported that stent placement code 92980 (transcatheter placement of an intracoronary stent[s], percutaneous, with or without other therapeutic intervention, any method; single vessel) should be appended with modifier -26 (professional component) when billed together with a left heart cath (93510, left heart catheterization, retrograde, from the brachial artery, axillary artery or femoral artery; percutaneous) and its associated injection and supervision and interpretation codes (i.e., 93543, 93545, 93555, 93556). Only 93510, 93555 and 93556 require modifier -26. Cardiology Coding Alert regrets the error.
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