AMA CPT® Assistant - 2013 Issue 3 (March)

Cardiovascular System: Cardiac Assist Changes in 2013 (Q&A) (March 2013)

March 2013 pages 10-11 Cardiovascular System: Cardiac Assist Changes in 2013 The Cardiac Assist subsection in the Cardiovascular System section of the CPT 2013 code set has four new codes, along with new and revised reporting guidelines for percutaneous and transthoracic insertion, repositioning, replacement, and removal of ventricular assist devices (VADs). Before the addition of these codes, Category III codes 0048T and 0050T were used to report the implantation and removal of percutaneous ventricular assist devices (pVADs). These new cardiac assist procedure codes (33990-33993) differ in approach from the open transthoracic cardiac assist procedures (33975, 33976, and 33979) in...

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