AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 1 (January)

Medicine: Cardiovascular (Q&A) (January 2017)

January 2017 page 7-end Medicine: Cardiovascular Question: A patient presents with coronary artery disease, and stents are placed in the first obtuse marginal (OM1) artery, second obtuse marginal (OM2) artery, and posterolateral artery. In this patient, the posterolateral arises from the left circumflex artery. No stent or other intervention is performed in the left circumflex artery itself, only in the three branches. What is the appropriate code(s) to report? Answer: Report code 92928, Percutaneous transcatheter placement of intracoronary stent(s), with coronary angioplasty when performed; single major coronary artery or branch, and two units of code 92929, Percutaneous transcatheter placement...

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