tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 1

CPT® 2013: 8 New Codes Merge Catheter Placement + Angiography

Yield to hierarchy to dodge denials. Following the trend to create more comprehensive vascular codes that include all aspects of a service, CPT® 2013 adds eight new codes you need to know for diagnostic studies of cervicocerebral arteries. Anatomically, the new codes relate to vessels in the neck and head, says Terry A. Fletcher, BS, CPC, CCS-P, CCS, CEMC, CCC, CMSCS, CMC, of California-based Terry Fletcher Consulting. Similar to renal angiography codes 36251-36254 added in CPT® 2012, new CPT® 2013 codes 36221-+36228 include catheterization, angiography, and radiological supervision and interpretation. That’s a significant shift from past coding, which...

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