CPT^® 33300, Under Surgical Procedures on the Heart (Including Valves) and Great Vessels

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 33300 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Surgical Procedures on the Heart (Including Valves) and Great Vessels.

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In this procedure, the provider repairs a wound to the heart without the need to place the patient on a cardiopulmonary bypass, or CPB, machine.

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Hello, I am a Trauma I coder and we had a patient that came in through the ED with a gun shot wound to the chest. They took him straight to the OR for a repair of cardiac wound. We used code 33300 and... [ Read More ]

injury to coronary sinus during retrograde cardioplegia

you may look at 33300 or 33305 using dx 998.2.... [ Read More ]

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33300 would be my guess. The other ventricular repair codes either have to do with repair of congenital defects or bypass graft procedures. Under CPT's index, Repair, heart, wound is the 33300 (with... [ Read More ]

repair of right ventricular perforation;

Are you sure the surgeon wants to charge for this repair? I ask because it sounds like it happened while opening the sternum so the surgeon may not want to charge for repairing it. If you are going t... [ Read More ]

Removal of wire from failed PCI and CABGx2

[QUOTE="emoates@selfmedicalgroup.org, post: 202165, member: 169033"]My surgeon did an emergent CABGx2 and also removed a broken wire from the LAD from a failed PCI. My question is, can I charge for a... [ Read More ]

Gunshot Wound to the Chest

33300, Repair of cardiac wound, without bypass :)... [ Read More ]

Plication Repair of Rt Ventricular Disruption

Hi Deb, I wouldn't bill 35211 because that is for repair of a blood vessel in the chest, not the right ventricle. I thought of 33548 but that is more work and its really to reduce the size of the le... [ Read More ]

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