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Include Ankle-Brachial Indexes With E/M

Published on Wed Mar 23, 2005

Question: Can I report ankle-brachial indexes separately from an E/M code?

Maine Subscriber Answer: No. Although you may be tempted to separately report 93922 (Noninvasive physiologic studies of upper or lower extremity arteries, single level, bilateral [e.g., ankle/brachial indices, Doppler waveform analysis, volume plethysmography, transcutaneous oxygen tension measurement]), you should not typically do so. An ankle/ brachial index just means that the doctor is taking blood pressure measurements in the ankle and different parts of the lower extremity.
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