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Prevent Device Monitoring Woes With This Programming Eval Guide

Published on Sat Jan 03, 2009

Conquer your 93279-93285 fears by putting authoritative guidelines on your side. CPT 2009 is a whole new world for device monitoring, but if you know how to approach the onslaught of new CPT guidelines available, you’ll learn the ropes in no time. Master your terms: To understand the new “Cardiovascular Device Monitoring -- Implantable and Wearable Devices” section of CPT (93279-93299), you have to be sure your understanding of several terms matches CPT’s. For example, to choose among the new code families (consider a family to be a code set with a common start to their descriptors) you will need to distinguish concepts such as programming and interrogation. But within the family itself, you will need to make even more distinctions, such as which technology is involved. Cardiology Coding Alert will cover all the new codes in the coming months and will begin by discussing 93279-93285 below. Eliminate the ‘Reprogramming’ [...]
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