Interventional Radiology

• Presenter: David Zielske, MD, CPC-H, CIRCC, CCC
• Broadcast On: 4/25/2012
  10:00am PT / 11:00am MT / 12:00pm CT / 1:00pm ET
• On Demand Availability: Immediately following live event
• Presentation Length: 60 minutes
• Attendee Rating:
  
  
• 2 CEU

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  Coding Billing Auditing Compliance Mgmt

Overview:

This webinar will review coding changes for renal angiography and vena cava filter procedures. We will also discuss common venous interventions, catheter directed infusion therapy, and percutaneous thrombectomy procedures. Scenarios to illustrate the proper use of these codes will be presented throughout the presentation.

You Will Learn:

• How to accurately code renal angiography and vena cava filter interventions based on 2012 code changes.
• The types of infusions performed by catheter directed technique and appropriate codes for such procedures.
• Bundling issues that apply to the codes we discuss.

CEU approved for all CPCs, CPC-Hs, CPC-Ps and the following specialties: CCC, CIRCC, CCVTC, and CPMA.

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About The Presenter

Dr. Zielske is an interventional radiologist who was in a large private practice for over 14 years in a community setting at several large hospitals in the Nashville area. He has been involved with CPT® coding for interventional radiology procedures since 1993. In 2000, he started ZHealth, a firm that performs physician and hospital coding audits in the subspecialties of IR, cardiology, and vascular surgery. Three years later, he started ZHealth Publishing, which is an education company focused on training coders, techs, nurse auditors, billers, and physicians on the appropriate documentation and use of codes in these same specialties.

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