tci Part B Insider - 2006 Issue 11

RADIOLOGY: Radiology Coding Just Got More Complicated

April brings a lot more than showers this year--next month will also shower radiologists with a host of new Correct Coding Initiative edits. You won't be able to use a modifier to override edits bundling cardiac blood pool imaging codes 78472-78473, 78481-78483 and 78496 with myocardial perfusion imaging codes 78460-78465. And you can't use a modifier to override edits that make multiple myocardial perfusion imaging studies code 78461 a component of multiple cardiac blood pool imaging studies codes 78473 and 78483. You would never perform myocardial perfusion imaging studies on the same date as cardiac blood pool imaging studies...

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