AMA CPT® Assistant - 2024 Issue 2 (February)

Erratum: Reporting Pulmonary Angiography (93568, 93569 and 93573-93575) (February 2024)

February 2024 page 31 Erratum: Reporting Pulmonary Angiography (93568, 93569 and 93573-93575) In the CPT Assistant May 2023 article “Reporting Pulmonary Angiography (93568, 93569 and 93573-93575)”, the word “venous” in the last sentence of the fourth paragraph (highlighted below) should be replaced with “arterial” because major aortopulmonary collateral arteries (MAPCAs) are arterial connections, not venous. Before 2023, code 93568 described pulmonary angiography but did not … Code 93568 was revised and codes 93569 and 93573 were created to accurately … Code 93574 describes the injection procedure for pulmonary venous angiography of each distinct PV during cardiac catheterization. The guidelines...

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