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Nuclear Stress Test, Hospital Coding
Date: Jan 22, 2015
Question:
The cardiologists in our practice have recently become employed by the hospital, and we need to start billing the nuclear stress test as a global procedure. The hospital was billing codes 93017 and 78452, as well as the radiopharmaceuticals and other drugs used. What codes should we be billing now to cover both the physician charges and the hospital charges? Also, are the injection and infusion codes billable from the hospital side? The place of service is hospital outpatient.
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