AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2025 Issue 1; Section D – Radiation Therapy Section

Cardiac Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy

Table D22, Stereotactic Radiosurgery of Heart and Great Vessels, was added to capture procedures such as cardiac stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), a procedure that is used to treat refractory ventricular tachycardia.Treatment Site Modality Qualifier Isotope Qualifier 8 Conduction Mechanism D Stereotactic Other Photon Radiosurgery Z None Z None Cardiac SBRT, also called cardiac radio-ablation, is a non-invasive procedure that uses high dose radiation to target the areas that are generating problematic electrical signals in patients with arrythmia. SBRT has the unique advantage of delivering ablative energy to any desired area within the body that can be inaccessible with...

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