Please note this question was answered in 2017. The coding advice may or may not be outdated.
C Arm
Date: Aug 29, 2017
Question:
For hospital billing, when a surgeon requests that radiology bring up the C arm to perform intraoperative fluoroscopy check, should this be separately reported? Or is it a component of surgical level/CPT charge? If billable, is it billable across the board or only when the surgical CPT code does not indicate imaging is included within its definition? When billable, should this be coded with 76000/76001 or with a anatomic specific x-ray evaluation code?
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