READER QUESTIONS:
Limit Your Imaging Procedures Codes
Published on Thu Aug 18, 2005
Question: My cardiologist performed a diagnostic cardiac catheterization. How should I report injection procedure codes for this service?
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Answer: You can only report codes 93539-93545 (Injection procedure during cardiac catheterization ...) and the associated imaging codes - either 93555 (Imaging supervision, interpretation and report for injection procedure[s] during cardiac catheterization; ventricular and/or atrial angiography) or 93556 (... pulmonary angiography, aortography, and/or selective coronary angiography including venous bypass grafts and arterial conduits [whether native or used in bypass]) - once. In other words, you should not report these codes once for each vessel injected. You Be the Coder and Reader Questions were prepared with the assistance of Jim Collins, ACS-CA, CHCC, CPC, CEO of the Cardiology Coalition and compliance manager for several cardiology groups around the country; and reviewed by Jerome Williams Jr., MD, FACC, a cardiologist with Mid Carolina Cardiology in Charlotte, N.C.
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