Cardiology Coding Alert
CPT® 2014 Details Are on the Way!
Published on Wed Sep 11, 2013
Don’t miss the next issue when we’ll take an in-depth look at the CPT® 2014 changes in store for cardiology. For a reminder about the codes coming your way — FEVAR, transcatheter stent placement, vascular embolization, percutaneous PDA closure, and percutaneous septal reduction — see “37205 Deleted? See What Else 2014 May Bring for Cardiology Codes” in Cardiology Coding Alert, vol. 16, no. 7.
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