AMA CPT® Assistant - 2013 Issue 11 (November)
Vascular Embolization and Occlusion Procedures (November 2013)
November 2013 pages 6-8 Vascular Embolization and Occlusion Procedures In April 2010, the American Medical Association (AMA)/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale (RVS) Update Committee (RUC) Relativity Assessment Workgroup recommended that a new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code be established to bundle embolization surgical code 37204, Transcatheter occlusion or embolization (eg, for tumor destruction, to achieve hemostasis, to occlude a vascular malformation), percutaneous, any method, non-central nervous system, non-head or neck), with radiological supervision and interpretation code 75894, Transcatheter therapy, embolization, any method, radiological supervision and interpretation, and code 75898, Angiography through existing catheter for follow-up study for transcatheter...
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