Reader Question:
Longer-Term Epilepsy Monitoring
Published on Mon Nov 05, 2007
Question: What is the most accurate diagnosis for epilepsy monitoring that lasts 13 hours? Georgia Subscriber
Answer: The correct diagnosis code is 780.39 (Other convulsions). You should report 95951 (Monitoring for localization of cerebral seizure focus by cable or radio, 16 or more channel telemetry, combined electroencephalographic [EEG] and video recording and interpretation [e.g., for presurgical localization], each 24 hours) for epilepsy monitoring.