Cardiology Coding Alert
Can You Code Intracoronary Stents? Test Yourself
Caution: The answer to scenario 3 may surprise you Scenario 1: Your cardiologist determines that a patient has a lesion in the right coronary and left anterior descending arteries and places two stents. How should you report this? Scenario 2: The patient undergoes stenting of the LAD and angioplasty of two LAD diagonal side branches. How should you report this? Scenario 3: Your cardiologist performs a stenting of the LAD. The angioplasty of the RCA fails, so he follows with a bailout stenting of the RCA. How should you report this? Scenario 4: The patient undergoes a stent in the LAD, an atherectomy on the LAD, and a balloon angioplasty of the circumflex marginal. How should you report this?
Think you've got intracoronary stent coding down-pat? Take this quiz and judge for yourself by reading the answers in the following article.
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