AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2021 Issue 4; Section X-New Technology

Transthoracic Echocardiography with Computer-Aided Image Acquisition

The root operation “Inspection” has been added to Section X, New Technology, Cardiovascular System, resulting in a new Table X2J. In addition, the body part value A Heart and the Device/Substance/Technology value 4 Transthoracic Echocardiography Computer-aided Guidance was created as shown below. The change will identify the utilization of software to guide transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) image acquisition. Section: X New Technology Body System: 2 Cardiovascular System Operation: J Inspection Body Part Approach Device/ Substance/ Technology Qualifier A Heart X External 4 Transthoracic Echocardiography, Computer-aided Guidance 7 New Technology Group 7 An example of this new technology is Caption...

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