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CPT 2010:

Shake Up Your Cardiac CT and MRI Coding With 2 Key Changes

Published on Mon Oct 26, 2009

If you perform cardiac CTA, keep 75574's guidelines close at hand. Cardiac MRI codes 75557-75564 debuted only two years ago, but CPT decided they were already in need of a facelift. Here are the details on a new flow/velocity code, as well as important news about where to locate cardiac CT/CTA codes. 1. Switch to +75565 for 2010 Cardiac MRI CPT 2010 deletes all of the 2009 cardiac MRI codes that specify flow/velocity quantification (75558, 75560, 75562, 75564, Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging ...). New option: To replace them, use new code +75565 (Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for velocity flow mapping [List separately in addition to code for primary procedure]). Be sure you catch that +75565 is an add-on code,which CPT instructs you to report in addition to the following existing cardiac MRI codes: • 75557 -- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for morphology and function without contrast material • 75559 -- ... with [...]
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