AMA CPT® Assistant - 2007 Issue 12 (December)

Medicine (December 2007)

December 2007 page 15c Bonus Feature:Medicine Question: When a right heart catheterization (left heart not entered) is performed that includes selective imaging of the coronary arteries, are codes 93508, 93545, and 93556 reported? Answer: Code 93508, Catheter placement in coronary artery(s), arterial coronary conduit(s), and/or venous coronary bypass graft(s) for coronary angiography without concomitant left heart catheterization, should be reported (once) when coronary artery, arterial coronary conduit, or venous bypass graft angiography is performed without left heart catheterization (the catheter does not cross the aortic valve). The injection code 93545, Injection procedure during cardiac catheterization; for selective coronary angiography...

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