CPT^® 92972, Under Coronary Therapeutic Services and Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT^®) code 92972 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Coronary Therapeutic Services and Procedures.

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As an add–on procedure to another service, the provider performs lithotripsy, which breaks up calcifications, in a coronary (heart) vessel. The approach is percutaneous (through the skin).

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Can i bill 99211 with a 36415

[QUOTE="MnTwins29, post: 186590, member: 92972"] [B]Thanks![/B] Thanks for answering the 99211/36415 question. As for the chance to use 99212, only mention of previous treatment plan was the labs w... [ Read More ]

E&m documentaiton updates 2019

[QUOTE="MnTwins29, post: 448275, member: 92972"]I found this example statement that a physician might say when reviewing documentation by ancillary staff on our MAC (NGS) site Example: DOS xx/xx/201... [ Read More ]

PFSH/social history ?

[b]Pfsh[/b] [QUOTE="MnTwins29, post: 270805, member: 92972"]Why wouldn't "son" or "daughter" count? Number of children is often asked, and if the patient is raising children or not DOES make a diff... [ Read More ]

Payer Wants us to Sign a Business Associate Agreement

[QUOTE="MnTwins29, post: 386073, member: 92972"]While I understand what you are saying, figuring there are bigger fish to fry than this because both parties have to comply with HIPAA, by agreeing that... [ Read More ]

Payer Wants us to Sign a Business Associate Agreement

[QUOTE="MnTwins29, post: 385999, member: 92972"]A provider is not a BA of a payer and vice versa. Neither is providing services on behalf of the other, and the transmission of PHI is not on behalf of... [ Read More ]

Transgender procedure

[QUOTE="MnTwins29, post: 355755, member: 92972"]I found the answer elsewhere for CMS, but in case anyone else is interested: Part A - use condition code 45 (Ambiguous Gender Category)on the claim Pa... [ Read More ]

Icd-10-pcs

[QUOTE="MnTwins29, post: 336586, member: 92972"]Typo, maybe? I believe you mean that an inpatient coder WILL use these codes. Outpatient and physician coders will not use PCS.[/QUOTE] Yes lance tha... [ Read More ]

CEU's for ICD-10 Boot Camp

[QUOTE="MnTwins29, post: 335005, member: 92972"]I have been approved to attend the ICD-10 Boot Camp - either Queens in January or Manhattan in April. I am looking at all the materials and cannot fin... [ Read More ]

Keeping previous year(s) code books

[QUOTE="MnTwins29, post: 334001, member: 92972"]We keep three years as that is how long the RAC can look back at records. Although with no updates to ICD-9 since 2012, that is a few less to keep![/QU... [ Read More ]

CPMA prep

[QUOTE="MnTwins29, post: 326017, member: 92972"]I used only the AAPC study guide and that worked for me - but I had also been auditing for a couple years before taking the exam. Hard to pinpoint an ... [ Read More ]

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