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CPT® 2016: Percutaneous Biliary Interventional Coding

CPT® 2016: Percutaneous Biliary Interventional Coding

Part 2: New codes change the way you should report these procedures.

For 2016, the biggest CPT® coding changes affecting interventional radiology occur within the subspecialties of urinary, biliary, and neurologic intervention. Last month, we covered urinary intervention. This month, we’ll discuss the major changes in percutaneous biliary interventional coding. Next month, we’ll cover CPT® updates for percutaneous neurologic intervention.

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Originally presented in "Healthcare Business Monthly".

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CPT® 2016: Urinary Interventional Coding

CPT® 2016: Urinary Interventional Coding

Part 1: Understand what changes affect percutaneous urinary interventional coding.

For 2016, the biggest CPT® coding changes affecting interventional radiology occur within the subspecialties of urinary, biliary, and
neurologic intervention. This month, let’s focus on percutaneous urinary interventional coding, and in upcoming articles we’ll cover biliary and neurologic intervention codes.

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ZHealth Coding Newsletter - November 2015

November 2015 Q & A

Question: Upgrade from Dual Pacemaker to BiV AICD

The upgrade to a biV AICD from a dual pacer leads me to CPT codes 33230, 33233, and 33225. But this scenario is very confusing because the descriptor for 33230 says "with existing dual leads", so should I use 33231 because now with the addition of the LV lead that was implanted along with the BiV generator,  I have 3 total leads?

 

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ZHealth Coding Newsletter - July 2015

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.

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ZHealth Coding Newsletter - February 2015

February 2015 Q & A

Question: Heart Transplant - Congenital Versus Non-congenital

There has been much back and forth over the years as to whether or not congenital heart transplant patients should continue to be reported as congenital for heart catheterization coding purposes. Physicians state that “once congenital always congenital”, but I've understood from consultant recommendations that unless the new heart has a congenital defect or complex rerouting of vessels due to congenital cardiac anatomy, then all heart caths for transplant patients are coded as non-congenital. Can you please clarify?

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