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CT DONOR PROTOCOL

Date: Sep 6, 2018

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The CT department had a question for me today, and I have no idea how to tell them to code these. Please help. "We are currently charging a CTA aorta with runoff for the CTA renal donor protocol. They have changed the protocol. It now requires us to scan an abdomen/pelvis without, CTA abdomen/pelvis with runoff, abdomen/pelvis venous phase, and delay abdomen/pelvis. We are all doing multiplanar reformats, volume rendering, and MIPS of all the contrast phases. Is charging the CTA aorta with runoff the correct charge for the updated protocol?"

Question ID : 11378
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