Radiology Coding Alert
Reader Questions:
Earn For Contrast Injection with 27370
Published on Mon Jun 15, 2015
Question: Our physician assisted in a knee arthrography by injecting contrast to guide the knee arthrography. How can we report the injection of contrast?
New Jersey Subscriber
Answer: When your physician injects contrast for knee arthrography, you submit code 27370 (Injection of contrast for knee arthrography). The code descriptor clearly mentions that the contrast injection was used to guide the knee arthrography.
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