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- Assigning a code for repairing a dissection during an operative procedure
- Celiac, AMA and IMA artery scans are each coded separately
- Coding and submission considerations when outside provider provides fine-needle aspiration guidance
- Coding fixed for x-ray of chest plus two or more abdominal views
- Coding for a diagnostic mammogram includes all views done on the same day
- Abdominal duplex scan assigned more than once on the same day
- Billing for handheld ultrasound
- Charge codes for paracentesis or thoracentesis depend on area studied and findings
- Coding and modifiers for biophysical profiles performed on triplets
- Coding and reimbursement for full, follow-up and limited pregnancy ultrasounds
- 10 digit vs 11 digit NDC code
- 2020 CPT coding changes for planar, SPECT and SPECT/CT imaging
- All cardiac PET codes, including combination codes, now include wall motion (WM) and ejection fraction (EF)
- Autologous white blood cell scan with whole-body imaging 24 hours post-administration
- Charging patients for a nuclear medicine thyroid scan and uptake using i-123 capsules
- 3D post-processing is required and is included in computed tomographic angiography
- Acceptable to report whole-body exam was done and that remainder of scan was unremarkable
- Appropriate ICD-10-CM coding for retrolisthesis of C5 relative to C6
- AUC consults must now be performed by the referring physician, or else neither the hospital nor the interpreting physician will be paid
- Billing for radiologist supervising a PA performing a radiology procedure
- Is there a specific code for a myocardial perfusion SPECT/CT scan?
- Any major coronary artery or one of its branches may be evaluated with (and coded for) intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) or IFR/FFR
- Billing for both an angiogram and catheter placement for a failed access site performed during a left heart catheterization (LHC)
- Cases when repeat diagnostic coronary angiography can be submitted — documentation needed
- Changes to the cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) codes
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