ZHealth Coding Newsletter - February 2013
Q & A with Dr. David Zielske
Question I have a question that involves the new cardiology intervention codes for 2013. We had a STEMI come in that was intervened on. There were lesions treated with drug-eluting stents in two different vessels. The first lesion was the middle 1/3 of the SVG graft from the aorta to 2nd left posterolateral artery and the second lesion was in the native 2nd left posterolateral artery. Can we charge for both stent placements? I think we can. But, would we charge C9606 twice or would we charge C9606 once and charge C9601 too?
