AHA Coding Clinic® for HCPCS - 2015 Issue 2; Ask the Editor

Replacement cardiac event recorder

Patient with three-year old patient-activated cardiac event recorder was taken to surgery for device replacement at the same site. The NCCI edits suggest that only 33284 would be reported. Based on the Outpatient Code Editor (OCE) CPT code 33282 is considered code2 of a code pair. What would be the correct CPT code(s) based on the operative report, code 33282, Implantation of patient-activated cardiac event recorder, 33284, Removal of an implantable, patient-activated cardiac event recorder or both? ...

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