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CPT® 93351, Under Echocardiography Procedures

The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code 93351 as maintained by American Medical Association, is a medical procedural code under the range - Echocardiography Procedures.

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In this procedure, the provider performs continuous transthoracic echocardiography both at rest and after exercise and reviews images evaluating and assessing global and ventricular performance and other cardiac causes of chest pain. This code has both a professional and a technical component. It is not just for supervision and interpretation.

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Echo and Stress Echo
Can we bill 93306 then 93351? There is a gap of 3 days but 1199 SEIU benefit plan of New York is [B]denying for inclusive[/B]. We billed 99212 (25) + 93306 on dos 08/23/2022 and 93351 alone on 08/26/... [ Read More ]
billing 93306 and 93015
Are these really two separate tests? Why aren't you doing a stress echo and billing with 93351? If doppler and color flow are documented, you could also add 93320/93321 and/or 93325.... [ Read More ]
Stress echocardiogram in a hospital outpatient setting
[QUOTE="ellis3350, post: 485066, member: 217994"] Are you billing for the hospital or the provider in the OP setting? If you are coding for the provider and he/she signed the report the same day as th... [ Read More ]
Stress echocardiogram in a hospital outpatient setting
Are you billing for the hospital or the provider in the OP setting? If you are coding for the provider and he/she signed the report the same day as the supervision, I would code 93351,26.... [ Read More ]
stress echo coding
For the pro-fee portion of stress echoes, our clinics use 93351, 93352 if contrast is given, and then 93320, and 93325 when documented. CPT allows 93320 and 93325 to be reported in conjunction with 9... [ Read More ]
stress echo coding
Hi everyone. When coding the professional portion of stress echoes, what codes are you using. The question being a stress echo with exercise using definity contrast and one without using definity cont... [ Read More ]
Help please! Stress Echo
I've never had a provider bill a limited stress echo, only a limited echo, but I'll give this a shot. I'm thinking 93351-52, 93321-26 (if documented and done), 93325-26 (again, if documented and done... [ Read More ]
Help please- Proper documentation for Stress Echo with 93325 and 93320 cardiology doppler echo
I code for a Cardiology practice that frequently performs Stress Echo's in the clinic. I bill 93351, but I am having trouble finding[B] [/B]guidelines on billing 93325 and 93320. Their reports do not ... [ Read More ]
Anthem denial for 93351 and missing/invalid diagnosis.
Anyone else seeing this denial with R06.02, R94.31 or I47.1 diagnosis? Please help. Thanks... [ Read More ]
stress echo
Confused on the 93351 comment. In the CPT book it states that when all professional services are not performed by the same physician, use the 93350 in conjunction to the stress test codes. So if done ... [ Read More ]
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