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Appropriate 78830 Post Treatment SPECT/CT after Y-90

Date: Aug 24, 2020

Question:

Yttrium-90 Thera-spheres was administrated and coded with 79445 and C2616. Post procedure SPECT/CT done and coded with 78830. There are NCCI edits with 79445/C2616 and 78830. Seems like 78830 is a diagnostic code/procedure and is being used to confirm success of the procedure and probably shouldn't be reported?

Question ID : 14336
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