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Elective Cardioversion in conjuction w/ Pacemaker

Date: Sep 6, 2018

Question:

I know typically a cardioversion is only billed prior to the beginning of a procedure (EP, LHC, PM), but occasionally our EP doctor is doing an elective cardioversion after placing the PM and leads for safety reasons since these patients are bradycardic and it's safer to have the RV lead in prior to cardioverting them. Would it be okay to bill code 92960 in this scenario since it was elective (consent on chart), but it wasn't safe to perform the cardioversion at the beginning of the procedure?

Question ID : 11381
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