CPT^® 33310, Under Surgical Procedures on the Heart (Including Valves) and Great Vessels

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 33310 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Surgical Procedures on the Heart (Including Valves) and Great Vessels.

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Summary

In this procedure, the provider incises the heart to find and remove a foreign body or clot in the heart. The provider does not place the patient on a cardiopulmonary bypass, or CPB, machine to perform this procedure.

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AAPC Challenge

[QUOTE="ncgirl, post: 337592, member: 33310"]Yes, I agree. I have got 729.1 on Case 2 and 10061 for on case 4 and no -25 modifier required for 99382 (preventive) on case 3 per guidelines. Would reall... [ Read More ]

Cardiothoracic Surgery

I pretty much have the same information you do from my research. See below: [B] Left Atrial Appendage Ligation (LAA)[/B] Some names you may see within the OP report: ... [ Read More ]

Angiojet/Angiovac

Anybody have a physician performing these? Rep says we can bill three codes: Placing Cannula(s) for extracorpeal External bypass Thrombectomy direct with or without cath - no mechanical "removing ... [ Read More ]

Close left atrial appendage

[QUOTE="jewlz0879, post: 255257, member: 22511"]Some names you may see within the OP report: â€œLAAâ€� aka atrial appendage ligation, plication or clip. If an atrial appendage procedure is pe... [ Read More ]

Organ systems vs. body areas

[QUOTE="ncgirl, post: 269582, member: 33310"]Can we use the bullet points from '97 guidelines to determine body areas and organ systems to audit under '95 guidelines? [/QUOTE] Of course. [QUOTE="ncgi... [ Read More ]

Close left atrial appendage

Some names you may see within the OP report: â€œLAAâ€� aka atrial appendage ligation, plication or clip. If an atrial appendage procedure is performed with cardiac procedure other than MAZE o... [ Read More ]

Close left atrial appendage

Some names you may see within the OP report: “LAA” aka atrial appendage ligation, plication or clip. If an atrial appendage procedure is performed with cardiac procedure other than MAZE or Mitral ... [ Read More ]

A doozie of a cath

I would code only 33999. It is my opinion the TEE was done as mapping guidance and not from a diagnostic perspective. You will have to use a comp code to figure price. I want to say we used CPT 3331... [ Read More ]

A doozie of a cath

I agree with Misty. It seems to me he's doing a left atrial appendage. Here is what I found from STS: 1. Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) can be billed separately with CABG or other cardiac procedures e... [ Read More ]

need a little help(alot)

[QUOTE="hewitt, post: 241090, member: 11336"]You might want to consider for atrial or ventricular thrombus 33310, 33315. Inferior vena cava 34401, 34421, 34451. Hepatic 34151. I do not know the detail... [ Read More ]

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