Cardiology Coding Alert

Hawaii Subscriber

Answer: AMA's CPT Assistant (Spring 1994) states that you should report 93556 (Imaging supervision, interpretation and report for injection procedure[s] during cardiac catheterization; pulmonary angiography, aortography, and/or selective coronary angiography including venous bypass grafts and arterial conduits [whether native or used in bypass]) once for all services the descriptor indicates.

You use 93556 to "describe the supervision and interpretation of pulmonary angiograms, aortograms and/or selective coronary angiograms, including vein graft angiograms and imaging of the internal mammary arteries, whether used as a coronary graft or not," per CPT Assistant.