CPT^® 92944, Under Therapeutic Services and Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 92944 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Therapeutic Services and Procedures.

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In this procedure, the provider inserts a catheter with a rotating blade, inflates a balloon tipped catheter into the blocked area of the coronary artery, and places a stent to expand the narrowed walls of the vessel to treat an occlusion The provider performs this procedure to restore each additional coronary artery, branch, or bypass graft.

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Help with codes

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CPT 92928 with 93458

If you read the guidelines in your CPT book for Coronary Therapeutic Services and Procedures, it states "Diagnostic coronary angiography codes (93454-93461) and injection procedure codes (93563-93564)... [ Read More ]

Do Drug Eluting procedure codes 92920-92944 have to be billed with the HCPCS C codes

Codes 92920-92944: These PCI codes include the work of catheterizing the vessel, traversing the lesion, radiological supervision and interpretation and closure of the arteriotomy. These codes include ... [ Read More ]

Coronary Stents

Since Medicare no longer recognizes add on Stent codes, i.e., 92929, 92944, etc., is it acceptable to bill the additional Stent deployed in a separate vessel by using the primary code, such as, 92928 ... [ Read More ]

drug eluting stent

The C code is used to report to CMS the item/supply and is not billed by the physician, unless the provider owns the cath lab. Supplies are reimbursed through APC for the facility charge. You'd jus... [ Read More ]

Cardiac Catheterization and agniogram help please

I am auditing an operative report and am confused on part of the documentation/coding that I hope someone can help. The claim was billed in this manner. 92928 93458-26, 59 92921 75736-26 The provid... [ Read More ]

92929 Denials

Medicare and most other insurances are not paying for the add-on codes. Medicare stated this when these codes were changed. They will not pay for the additional branch codes. They are considered bundl... [ Read More ]

MUE on cardiac new 2013 PCI procedures

Is anyone else seeing a new MUE edit for the new cardiology PCI procedures? We recently started getting this from our scrubbers and was curious to know if anyone else. 92920-92944 clearly state majo... [ Read More ]

Attempted angioplasty of 2 CTO lesions

Hi..doctor performed a LHC, there were 2 chronic total occulusions. He attempted to pass the angioplasty wire across both occlusions, the LAD and the LC, however it was noted that both were chronic a... [ Read More ]

Biling for 92929,coronary stent addtional vessel

CMS has a PFS procedure status indicator of “B” (bundled code) for codes +92921, +92925, +92929, +92934, +92938, and +92944. They wll not pay additional branch add on codes.... [ Read More ]

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