Cardiology Coding Alert
Attempted Angioplasty
Hawaii Subscriber
Answer: It depends on whether the cardiologist attempted to cross the lesion with wires or with balloons. If wires alone were used, 93510 (left heart catheterization, retrograde, from the brachial artery, axillary artery or femoral artery; percutaneous) should be reported without billing for the attempted angioplasty. If the cardiologist tried getting a balloon to cross the lesion, the angioplasty should be reported as 92982 (percutaneous transluminal coronary balloon angioplasty; single vessel) with modifier -52 (reduced services).
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