AMA CPT® Assistant - 2018 Issue 11 (November)

Radiology: Nuclear Medicine (Q&A) (November 2018)

November 2018 page 11c Radiology: Nuclear Medicine Question: Is code 78469 the correct code to report for a single planar imaging session alone or with single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging using 99mTc PYP to look for cardiac amyloidosis? Answer: No, code 78469, Myocardial imaging, infarct avid, planar; tomographic SPECT with or without quantification, should not be reported for imaging of cardiac amyloidosis. Code 78469 was established to report imaging an infarct: cardiac amyloidosis is not an infarct. Instead, report the following codes: For a single planar imaging session alone (without a SPECT study), report code 78800, Radiopharmaceutical...

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