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Old 08-06-2012, 02:42 PM
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Default Stress Test coding

We are doing stress tests in a physician's office. A company comes in with the equipment and does them while the physician supervises and then does an interpretation and report. They are coding 93016, 93017, 93018. I feel it should only be the 16 and 18. Help please.
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What kind of stress test? Nuke or just treadmill? The company should bill the tracing only. I agree with your code selection for your MD.
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