jaimo
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Hi, My physicians like using the Ultrasound gudied vascular access code 76937, I understand that it has to be used with a qualifying primary code. My question is the documentation, with the understanding that in order to bill 76937 there is required documentation, but does that documentation explicit have to refer to the Vascular procedure being performed?
example: my physicians will perform Heart Cath with a Vascular procedure, i.e stent placement in pulmonary artery and want to bill the 76937 but the documentation doesn't refer to the stent placement even though it has all the required elements, it refers to another vessel, like accessing a femoral vessel because it's know that the pt has small femoral vessels for hemodynamics, once this is done then they note they turn their attention to the stent placement but no documentation stating the Ultrasound guidance was used for that. Under these circumstances should 76937 be billed?
Thanks in advance for any feed back anyone can provide
example: my physicians will perform Heart Cath with a Vascular procedure, i.e stent placement in pulmonary artery and want to bill the 76937 but the documentation doesn't refer to the stent placement even though it has all the required elements, it refers to another vessel, like accessing a femoral vessel because it's know that the pt has small femoral vessels for hemodynamics, once this is done then they note they turn their attention to the stent placement but no documentation stating the Ultrasound guidance was used for that. Under these circumstances should 76937 be billed?
Thanks in advance for any feed back anyone can provide
