AMA CPT® Assistant - 2008 Issue 6 (June)
Surgery/Cardiovascular System (June 2008)
June 2008 page 14d Surgery/Cardiovascular System, 33282, 93727 (Q&A) Question: The physician implanted a patient-activated event recorder to document the heart rates, rhythms, and recurrent cardiac events the patient might experience over a few months. What is the appropriate code to report for the initial programming that was done when the recorder was implanted? Answer: Code 33282, Implantation of patient-activated cardiac event recorder, includes the initial programming of the device. Code 93727, Electronic analysis of implantable loop recorder (ILR) system (includes retrieval of recorded and stored ECG data, physician review and interpretation of retrieved ECG data and reprogramming)...
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