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READER QUESTIONS:

Report Only What Your Cardiologist Performs

Published on Tue Aug 22, 2006

Question: My office monitored a patient using the equipment described in 93224, but our cardiologist did not do the scanning analysis. We have an outside company perform that technical component. What should I report?


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Answer: You would report 93225 (Electrocardiographic monitoring for 24 hours by continuous original ECG waveform recording and storage, with visual superimposition scanning; recording [includes hook-up, recording, and disconnection]) for the recording, hook-up and removal of the cardiac monitor.

You should report 93227 (... physician review and interpretation) for the physician review and interpretation.

The scanning company would report codes of its own for the analysis.
 
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