AMA CPT® Assistant - 2005 Issue 6 (June)

Medicine: Therapeutic, Prophylactic, or Diagnostic Injections (June 2005)

June 2005 page 10b Coding Consultation:Questions and Answers Injections, 90784, modifier 22, Therapeutic, Prophylactic, or Diagnostic Question What is the appropriate code to report for a contrast echocardiography ("bubble study")? AMA Comment The "bubble study" is the injection of agitated saline or a small amount of contrast material injected intravenously during a transesophageal echocardiography (or other echocardiography). CPT code 90784, Therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic injection (specify material injected); intravenous, may be reported when agitated saline or contrast media are used by intravenous injection for imaging during echocardiography. However, it is generally routine to have an IV because the physician...

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