AMA CPT® Assistant - 2013 Issue 12 (December)

Medicine: Cardiovascular (Bonus Q&A) (December 2013)

December 2013 page 18a Medicine: Cardiovascular Question: Are there circumstances when add-on code 92978, {Intravascular ultrasound (coronary vessel or graft) during diagnostic evaluation and/or therapeutic intervention including imaging supervision, interpretation and report; initial vessel (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure)}, may be reported as a stand-alone code? Answer: No. CPT code 92978 is an add-on code and thus may only be submitted by the physician or qualified health care professional (QHP) performing the primary procedure. This is also the case with add-on code 92979, Intravascular ultrasound (coronary vessel or graft) during diagnostic evaluation and/or therapeutic intervention...

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