Part 1:
93451-93453: See How Guidelines Affect New Cardiac Cath Codes
Published on Tue Feb 15, 2011
Add-on code opportunities do exist if you know where to look."Major overhaul" sums up CPT 2011's changes to cardiac catheterization coding fairly well.In fact, you have 19 deleted cardiac cath codes, 20 added cardiac cath codes, and only eight cardiac cath codes that stay the same, as David B. Dunn, MD, FACS, CIRCC, CPC-H, CCC, CCS, RCC, of ZHealth Publishing, pointed out at The Coding Institute's December 2010 coding and reimbursement update conference.Cardiology Coding Alert will discuss these changes in the coming months. As a starting point, this article will focus on the rules that apply jointly to new left (LHC) and right heart cath (RHC) codes 93451-93453:93451 -- Right heart catheterization including measurement(s) of oxygen saturation and cardiac output, when performed93452 -- Left heart catheterization including intraprocedural injection(s) for left ventriculography, imaging supervision and interpretation, when performed93453 -- Combined right and left heart catheterization including intraprocedural injection(s) for left ventriculography, imaging supervision [...]
