Coding Update: Transcatheter Placement of Intravascular Stents (37215-37217) (March 2014)

Why This Topic Matters

The article highlights a code set refinement that affects procedure reporting in vascular and interventional cardiology settings. Understanding the update helps readers align documentation review and code selection with the current CPT framework described in the article.

Article Sections

1. March 2014 pages 8-9

   Publication information and the article’s placement within CPT Assistant. Provides context for the update discussed in the body of the article.

2. Coding Update: Transcatheter Placement of Intravascular Stents (37215-37217)

   Overview of the CPT 2014 changes to the transcatheter procedures subsection and the general scope of the stent-placement update.

3. Code 37217 and reporting exceptions

   Discussion of the new code’s procedural context and the related reporting limitations and exclusions noted in the article.

4. Clinical Example (37217)

   A sample case illustrating the type of clinical scenario associated with the new code.

5. Description of Procedure

   Narrative procedural walkthrough corresponding to the clinical example and showing the general sequence of the intervention.

6. Reminder and note on related carotid and vertebral stent reporting

   Summary of how the article places the revised carotid stent codes in context with related diagnostic and category III reporting references.