Cardiology Coding Alert
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This Chart Will Help You Know What Stress Echo, Test Code to Report
Published on Thu May 18, 2017
Append modifier 26 in the facility setting. If you want to perfect your coding for stress echoes the cardiologist performs in conjunction with stress tests, look to this handy chart from Rebecca Sanzone, CPC, CPMA, compliance administrator at St. Vincent Medical Group/Ascension Health in Indianapolis, Ind.
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