Jump Start Your Cardiac Device Coding With This Chart
Published on Wed Mar 23, 2005
Meet your new best coding tool that tackles pacemakers to CRT-Ps Forego fretting over coding for implantable therapeutic cardiac devices with this foolproof tool.
The following table - provided by Barbara Veath, CPC, senior reimbursement manager for Medtronic Inc. in Minneapolis - will help you sift through the confusing terminology and isolate the codes you should use for each device.
Keep in mind: Although the descriptions for the codes listed are clear, you will still have to pick and choose codes according to their device - particularly with single- or dual-chamber devices - and the situation, Veath says.
