Cardiology Coding Alert
Pinpoint What Codes to Use For ICE
Question: What are the codes for ICE (intracardiac echocardiography)? Florida Subscriber Answer: For ICE, you'll report +93662 (Intracardiac echocardiography during therapeutic/diagnostic intervention, including imaging supervision and interpretation [List separately in addition to code for primary procedure]). Since +93662 is an add-on code, you must list it in addition to the correct code for the primary procedure. According to CPT® 2017, when appropriate, you can report +93662 in conjunction with the following: Note: You should never report +93662 with 92961 (Cardioversion, elective, electrical conversion of arrhythmia; internal [separate procedure]), says CPT® 2017 in a parenthetical note with +93662.
Cardiology Coding Alert
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5 Steps Will Simplify How You Report Stress Echoes with Stress Tests
Hint: Never report 93350 in conjunction with 93015. In the Cardiology Coding Alert volume 20 [...] - Tool:
This Chart Will Help You Know What Stress Echo, Test Code to Report
Append modifier 26 in the facility setting. If you want to perfect your coding for [...] - New Technology:
Think Beyond Prior Catheter-Based Angiography and Consider CTA
Hint: Policies you create for your practice should include growing technologies. Technology is ever changing, [...] - You Be the Coder:
Master Anticoagulant Management Codes
Question: Can you explain the anticoagulant codes 99363 and 99364 to me? My cardiologist wants to [...] - Reader Question:
Conquer WPW and Tachycardia
Question: How would I report Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and nodal tachycardia? Georgia Subscriber Answer: For Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, [...] - Reader Question:
Pinpoint What Codes to Use For ICE
Question: What are the codes for ICE (intracardiac echocardiography)? Florida Subscriber Answer: For ICE, you'll report +93662 [...] - Reader Question:
Understand Critical Care Distinction
Question: A patient with chest pain “coded” in the ER and the cardiologist admitted her to [...]
