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HCPCS 2015:

Don't Base Adenosine Coding on Diagnostic or Therapeutic Use in 2015

Published on Thu Feb 12, 2015

Your new code option will change how you calculate units, too. Cardiologists may use adenosine to treat a patient’s irregular heartbeat or to improve blood flow to the heart during a stress test, and knowing why the patient needed the adenosine was the key to proper coding in 2014. But the new year brought a new way to code. Here [...]
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