CPT^® 92920, Under Therapeutic Services and Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 92920 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Therapeutic Services and Procedures.

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Summary

In this procedure, the provider inflates a balloon tipped catheter, or tube, inside a blocked area of a single artery or branch of an artery in the heart to widen a stenosis, or constricted area, that obstructs blood flow.

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jlong

The first procedure was billed with 93458.26.59, 92928.RC (3-stents placed in RC), 92978.26.RC, Medicare paid all three CPT. The patient returned to her room and then went into cardiac arrest and emer... [ Read More ]

Coding for PCI

Hi, Is it okay to claim both 929 series codes along with C codes for the same date of service . Some examples include below [LIST] [*]92920,92924,C9600 [*]92920,C9600 [*]92920,C9600,C9601 [*]92920,C9... [ Read More ]

unsuccessful coronary IR

The patient has total occlusion RCA, had a prior angiogram done like 3 weeks ago, it is a planned procedure. In Op report" Catheter was flushed, engaged into coronary ostium. We then used a Fielder XT... [ Read More ]

Unsuccessful coronary IR

Need help billing 2 procedure on same day (Sorry this is long!) Thank you!

92928-LC vs 92941-LC (unable to tell if acute NSTEMI) 93454-59 return to cath lab: 92920-LC-59 93454-76 (or 77 if by different provider)... [ Read More ]

Multiple stents

i would add ffr -93571-ld, 92920-ld (instead of LC)... [ Read More ]

Multiple stents

First is you code by what vessel was stented, not by how many stent were placed. So I would code this as 93458-59, 92920-LD, 92928-RI, 92928-LC, 92928-RC. If you are coding for the hospital, and drug... [ Read More ]

kissing angioplasty

I am perplexed how to code the kissing angioplasty procedure. I code for facility and I will be using C9600 code instead 92928. how can I capture this procedure? I would code; 93458-59 C9600-LD 92978-... [ Read More ]

kissing angioplasty

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New to cardiac cath coding. Payer says 92928 and 92920 bundled into 92941??

Is the LM/LAD/LC stenosis the same lesion? That may be the reason for 92928-LD and 92920-LC is not getting paid. If you can send a report it may help. HTH, Jim Pawloski, CIRCC... [ Read More ]

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