tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 26

CODING: CT Angiography Gains New Codes For 2006

But it's up to carriers to decide how much to reimburse codesCoronary computed tomographic angiography (CTA) may be on the cutting edge of medical procedures, but the procedure has been left behind by CPT - until now.The latest batch of Category III CPT codes, released early July, include codes for CTA as well as computed tomography (CT) scans of the heart. The CTA codes include CTA of coronary arteries without quantitative evaluation of coronary calcium (0146T) and with coronary calcium evaluation (0147T). They also include cardiac structure and morphology and CTA of arteries both without (0148T) and with...

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