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Look for Lead Analysis Code
Published on Thu Jun 12, 2014
Question: A surgeon who isn’t in our practice performed epicardial lead placement for an ICD. The generator will be placed later. My cardiologist performed intraoperative epicardial lead analysis and testing for one lead. What code should we use? Codify Subscriber Answer: You should report this lead testing using 93640 (Electrophysiologic evaluation of single or dual chamber pacing cardioverter-defibrillator leads including defibrillation threshold [...]