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ZHealth Coding Newsletter - December 2016

Dec 29, 2016

December 2016 Q & A

Question: Fractional Flow Reserve without Catheterization

Physician performs LHC at another facility and then transfers the patient to the cath lab at the hospital to perform fractional flow reserve (93571). The physician thinks that 93571-26-XE will get us paid by Medicare and for commercial insurance to bill coronary angiography only with 93571 to get paid.
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catheterization, fractional, flow, reserve, LHC, coronary, angiography, FFR, code, hospital, angiogram, OP, lab

ZHealth Coding Newsletter - July 2016

Jul 29, 2016

July 2016 Q & A

Question: Does a CTO 92943 have to be staged?

Since a CTO is a CHRONIC total occlusion, does it need to be staged? They would know about it ahead of time, since it is chronic. But what if the doctor finds a CTO upon first diagnostic angiography, and is able to treat it with some type of intervention at that same session? Would that be billed as a 92943 along with the cardiac cath code (w/59)? Or, because it is the first time it was found, is the PCI code just the 92928, 92920, 92924, 92933 etc instead of 92943? Do we need to find prior documentation showing CTO was known about prior to intervention?

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CTO, staged, chronic, angiography, intervention, cardiac, cath, code, PCI, coronary, thrombus, occlusion

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