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Remember These Top Tips for Successful Swan-Ganz Coding

Published on Thu Feb 12, 2015

Hint: It’s all about the associated CVP line. Most services your anesthesiologist provides are included in the anesthesia code fee, but a few are separately reportable. One of those possibilities is Swan-Ganz catheter placement with 93503 (Insertion and placement of flow directed catheter [e.g., Swan-Ganz] for monitoring purposes). The next time you’re considering whether you can submit 93503, keep these [...]
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