jtuominen
Guru
Does anyone have any sources of information on billing rules regarding the following situation? Ive been looking around and haven't found anything concrete yet:
Patient presents for coronary angiogram (93510/93543/93545/93555/93556) and decision is made to move to intervention. The MD attempts to wire the lesion so that he can perform a PTCA, but he can never get the wire to cross the lesion. He tries for about a half hour.
I thought for sure there was some rule out there that stated if the wire does not cross the lesion, that the PTCA should not be billed for.
or would it be more appropriate to bill 92982-53 profee / 74 for hospital?
Patient presents for coronary angiogram (93510/93543/93545/93555/93556) and decision is made to move to intervention. The MD attempts to wire the lesion so that he can perform a PTCA, but he can never get the wire to cross the lesion. He tries for about a half hour.
I thought for sure there was some rule out there that stated if the wire does not cross the lesion, that the PTCA should not be billed for.
or would it be more appropriate to bill 92982-53 profee / 74 for hospital?
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