Ultrasound question

[daniel]

If a Cardiology office in your work called you and just gave the following information how would you code this.


Non-Medicare Patient
Ultrasound of the groin
Dx: aneurysm



I'm strickly coding Inpatient E/M visits at my place of work, so this question threw me for a loop, when the cardiology office called.

I told them to use CPT 76770.

But something tells me this is not right.


Daniel, CPC

 

[~*Audra*~]

for our radiologists we code ultrasound of the groin as 76880. We get that from the CSI navigator. It has a little table for all the odd regions that doctors have a tendency to do ultrasounds on that are not clearly defined in the CPT book.