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Date: Jun 15, 2020

Question:

The P.A. at our cardiology department keeps charging 93294, 93296, and 93297 for pacemaker interrogations and 93295, 93296, and 93297 for ICD interrogations. I have been deleting 93297, as it cannot be billed with those other charges. I know you have addressed this before, but she is insisting there should be another code for 30-day monitoring to go with the other codes seeing 93297 cannot be used. Is there another code that would cover 30 days?

Question ID : 14001
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