tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2003 Issue 7

How to Capture Pay for Cardioversions, Defibrillations

Once you've distinguished between cardioversions and defibrillations, chemical and electrical, elective and emergency then the coding comes easily, but with minimal reward.  Some money, however, is better than no money, so squeeze out what change you can from these crucial procedures.  The downside with reporting cardioversions and defibrillations for the ED is that most of them don't have specific CPT codes. (To find out more about how to identify cardioversions and defibrillation, read "Cardioversion Denials Raising Your Blood Pressure? Find Out Where You're Going Wrong".)  If the physician performs defibrillation, that work is bundled into...

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