Need Help

[Gemini18]

I have a handwritten note in the record stating:

Physician performed a R/L Heart Cath. Patient was pronounced brain dead, the heart and liver were donated. How would I code this????? Please explain.

Thank You

 

[dkaran]

For brain dead i would use 01990, heart donor 33940 and liver donor 47133.

thank you.

 

[ajs]

I have a handwritten note in the record stating:

Physician performed a R/L Heart Cath. Patient was pronounced brain dead, the heart and liver were donated. How would I code this????? Please explain.

Thank You

Are you looking for CPT or ICD-9 or both?

 

[Gemini18]

Are you looking for CPT or ICD-9 or both?

I was actually looking for the CPT code, I have the ICD-9 codes. Thanks so much.

 

[FTessaBartels]

heart cath only?

I don't code cardiology, so don't know if you have enough documentation, but really the only thing I see the physician doing here is performing the R/L heart cath. (And I strongly suspect there isn't enough documentation to code this.)

Just saying that the heart and liver were donated doesn't qualified for coding the harvesting of those organs.

Hope that helps.

F Tessa Bartels, CPC, CEMC