AMA CPT® Assistant - 2013 Issue 6 (June)
Intracardiac Electrophysiological Studies and Intracardiac Ablation Reporting (June 2013)
June 2013 pages 6-8 Intracardiac Electrophysiological Studies and Intracardiac Ablation Reporting Updates to the 2013 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set include revisions to the Intracardiac Electrophysiological Procedures/Studies subsection of the Medicine/Cardiovascular section of the CPT codebook. An overview of the significant changes is summarized below: Intracardiac catheter ablation (93651, 93652) was historically performed at the same time as diagnostic electrophysiology (EP) studies (93600-93603, 93610, 93612, 93618, 93619, 93620), and each service has traditionally been reported separately. Beginning January 1, 2013, these services are reported using new service codes (93653-93657). The five new codes (93653-93657) that describe ablation...
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