CPT^® 93318, Under Echocardiography Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 93318 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Echocardiography Procedures.

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Summary

The provider performs monitoring and continuous assessment of cardiac functions using transesophageal echocardiography with multiple transducers or a rotating transducer to obtain a two dimensional (2D) image.

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HELP!! Billing TEE procedure for CRNA 93313 vs 93318 crna tee

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Left Heart Cath with ultrasonic guidance

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LHC and US guidance for vascular access (76937)

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Transespohogeal Echo Interpretation

[QUOTE="dunagin, post: 427259, member: 21031"]We do a pre and post transespohogeal echo on our pediatric patients we use 93315 for the probe and interp but we leave the probe in so how should we code... [ Read More ]

Ecmo - I have never billed for this

[b]echo billing with echmo[/b] which TEE/echo codes do you bill with echmo 93318 or 93308, 93321, 93325... [ Read More ]

Tee - We are using 93318

[b]question[/b] What TEE code would you use during an EP ablation 93312 or 93318... [ Read More ]

Is this separately billable?

Below from the AMA/CPT, it is not intended in a facility setting that a physician would report codes such as 96360-96379. They believe an IM injection would typically be ordered by the physician and p... [ Read More ]

Charge for intracopertive TEE during AVR (for facility)

Sorry Chlrtrep!! you did say "open" right in the first line and I blew right over it! For open procedures when they do TEE before/during/and,or after I use CPT 93318. CPT 93318 is for TEE monitorin... [ Read More ]

Anesthesia for TEE code 93318

Need some help with this. The group I code for is doing the anesthesia portion MAC sedation. The cardiologist is doing the TEE and the CPT code is 93318 there is no anesthesia cross code? Thank you... [ Read More ]

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