tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 15

Part B Coding Coach: Capture Cannula Services for ECMO Patients

Your surgeon may be part of the life support team. If you thought you could ignore CPT® 2015’s overhaul of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) codes because your surgeon doesn’t perform that service, you could be missing an opportunity. That’s because the new CPT® ECMO/extracorporeal life support (ECLS) section offers specific codes for individual parts of the treatment that different physicians might complete. For instance, your general surgeon might perform the percutaneous cannula insertion and removal, even if she isn’t involved throughout the ECMO/ECLS procedure. We’ll walk you through the new codes to make sure...

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