Radiology Coding Alert

Toss out your old intravascular foreign body removal codes for 2013. Effective January 1, CPT® adds a new combo platter code to replace the separate surgical and radiological codes you used in 2012.

The added code is 37197 (Transcatheter retrieval, percutaneous, of intravascular foreign body [e.g., fractured venous or arterial catheter], includes radiological supervision and interpretation, and imaging guidance [ultrasound or fluoroscopy], when performed).

• 37203, Transcatheter retrieval, percutaneous, of intravascular foreign body (e.g., fractured venous or arterial catheter)
• 75961, Transcatheter retrieval, percutaneous, of intravascular foreign body (e.g., fractured venous or arterial catheter), radiological supervision and interpretation.