AMA CPT® Assistant - 2010 Issue 8 (August)

Medicine: Cardiovascular (Q&A) (August 2010)

August 2010 page 13 Medicine: Cardiovascular Question: Is code 93270, Wearable patient activated electrocardiographic rhythm derived event recording with presymptom memory loop, 24-hour attended monitoring, per 30-day period of time; recording (includes connection, recording, and disconnection), reportable in either of the following two scenarios: 1) A patient presents to a clinic and is hooked up to a presymptom memory loop recorder. During the 30 days, the patient did not activate the recorder either because the patient did not have an event or the patient did not activate the recorder during an event; 2) A patient is mailed a presymptom...

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