ZHealth Coding Newsletter - June 2016
June 2016 Q & A
Question: Upper Extremity Angiography with Thoracic Aortography
June 2016 Q & A
Question: Upper Extremity Angiography with Thoracic Aortography
March 2016 Q & A
Question: Angioplasty or Primary Thrombectomy with No Stenosis Documented
October 2015 Q & A
Question: When do you use 75630 vs 75625
I am completely confused on Abdominal Aortic imaging. Does CPT code 75625 require 2 catheter placements or not? For example, physician places a catheter in the abdominal aorta near the renal arteries and performs abdominal aortography, also documents bilateral pelvic and common femoral artery imaging. The physician then moves the catheter to the SFA and completes the angiography with chase bolus runoff to the foot on the left. Is this coded as 36247, 75625, 75716 or is it 36247, 75630?
July 2015 Q & A
Question: 2 Infusion Catheters, 2 Graft Punctures for Access of the Same Leg
The patient has a left femoral to below-knee popliteal artery bypass graft and a left abandoned bypass graft. A micropuncture needle was advanced in a midline retrograde fashion and a sheath placed. A pelvic angiogram shows occlusion of the bypass graft and a 10 cm infusion Cragg-McNamara infusion catheter is placed and positioned across the proximal arterial anastomosis. Then under direct ultrasound guidance, a micropuncture needle was advanced into the proximal graft in an antegrade fashion, then a sheath was placed, followed by lower extremity angiography.
December 2014 Q & A
Question: Preoperative Tumor Embolization
The preoperative embolizations are sometimes confusing because they are done for varying reasons. When embolization is arteries supplying tumor, would this be considered Tumor Embolization? Patient has metastatic renal cell carcinoma to femur.