AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2006 Issue 4; VOLUME 3 NEW/REVISED CODES

Intracardiac Hemodynamic Monitoring

Effective October 1, 2006, new codes have been created for the implantation or replacement of intracardiac hemodynamic monitoring. Intracardiac hemodynamic monitoring systems have implanted components and are used to continually sense and record physiologic heart measurements in patients with severe heart failure. The implanted hemodynamic monitoring system requires insertion or implantation of two key components: a lead tipped with a pressure sensor (00.56) and a monitor device (00.57). The sensor is inserted transvenously into the heart chamber and inserted within the right ventricle at the right ventricular ouflow tract, unlike pacemaker or implantable cardiac defibrillator leads which...

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