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CPT® 2015:

9 Steps Help You Use New TEE Code 93355 Correctly From Day 1

Published on Wed Sep 10, 2014

Reviewed on May 22, 2015; no changes to content Check steps 3, 6, and 8 to prevent costly overcoding mistakes.   CPT® 2015 packs a lot of detail into its new code for transesophageal echocardiography used during transcatheter procedures on the heart and great vessels. Here’s a piece by piece look at the new code descriptor: 93355, Echocardiography, transesophageal (TEE) [...]
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