Can a physician's office bill for CPT 93571,26 alone?
Scenario: One of our cardiologist assisted another cardiologist to perform a left heart cath.
The main cardiologist (physician A) performed CPT 93458,26 L HRT ARTERY/VENTRICLE ANGIO . While, the second cardiologist (physician B) only performed CPT 93571,26 INTRAVASCULAR DOPPLER VELOCITY AND/OR PRESSURE DERIVED CORON. CPT 93571 is an add code. How can the practice bill this service when physician B only performed the add on procedure.
CPT 93571 is not billable unless the primary code is billed in conjunction to the add on code.
How should this service be bill?
Scenario: One of our cardiologist assisted another cardiologist to perform a left heart cath.
The main cardiologist (physician A) performed CPT 93458,26 L HRT ARTERY/VENTRICLE ANGIO . While, the second cardiologist (physician B) only performed CPT 93571,26 INTRAVASCULAR DOPPLER VELOCITY AND/OR PRESSURE DERIVED CORON. CPT 93571 is an add code. How can the practice bill this service when physician B only performed the add on procedure.
CPT 93571 is not billable unless the primary code is billed in conjunction to the add on code.
How should this service be bill?