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IVUS with DES

Date: Feb 6, 2013

Question:

Dr. Z, When the physician documents IVUS and then inserts a drug eluting stent we get an edit stating that 92978 needs to be billed with another CPT code. It is not recognizing the C9600- C9607 codes. You do not mention the use of these the C codes with 92978 in your chapter on IVUS. Is this not acceptable? Please advise. Thanks!! JD
Question ID : 4570
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