AMA CPT® Assistant - 1994 Issue 2 (February)

Electrophysiologic Testing and Pacemaker Services (Summer 1994)

Summer 1994 pages 10-26 Electrophysiologic Testing and Pacemaker Services Figure 1 - Conduction System Figure 2 - Electrical Conduction of the Heart Background Information The practice of cardiac electrophysiology has rapidly evolved from a purely diagnostic tool to a significant new therapeutic modality for the treatment of patients with cardiac arrhythmias. This evolution is similar to that which occurred for cardiac catheterization which began simply as a method of imaging cardiac and coronary structures, and evolved to a fully therapeutic practice. Technologic advances in permanent pacing have also continued. Many of the CPT codes and descriptors used prior to...

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