Cardiology Coding Alert

CPT®:

Follow 3 Handy Steps to Solidify Your Cardiac Stress Test Coding

Remember: Only report global code if physician performs complete test. If your cardiologist performs cardiac stress tests in your practice, you must stay on top of all the details in the documentation, including whether they performed a complete test or just a component of the test. You must also know if they performed as stress echo along with the test. [...]
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