AMA CPT® Assistant - 2006 Issue 5 (May)

Medicine: Dialysis (May 2006)

May 2006 page 18 Dialysis, 90940 (Q&A) Question Is it appropriate to report code 90940, Hemodialysis access flow study to determine blood flow in grafts and arteriovenous fistulae by an indicator method, for pressure-based methods of studying hemodialysis access flow? AMA Comment For CPT 2006, code 90940 has been revised in order to create one generic code and eliminate unnecessary methodological specificity for reporting a hemodialysis access flow study. Code 90940 includes the conductivity dialysance method of studying hemodialysis access flow. Code 90940 is not intended nor should it be used to describe pressure-based methods of studying hemodialysis...

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