tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2015 Issue 10

Diagnostic Details: Get a Clear Image of Ultrasound Coding to Claim It Right

You may need to code ultrasound more frequently in your office settings. Physicians have used ultrasound to view and help diagnose female gynecological conditions for years, but now ultrasound is becoming increasingly prevalent in office or outpatient settings for other specialties such as urology, ophthalmology, and orthopedics. Refresher: In ultrasound or sonography, images are made by sending pulses of ultrasound waves into tissue using a probe. The sound echoes off the tissue or areas being scanned and are then imaged and recorded. The CPT® manual offers a wide range of codes for ultrasound that are similar to traditional...

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