Coverage: Medicare Stingy When It Comes to Stent Bundling

Article Overview

This short news-style article covers Medicare’s coding edits involving a newly approved drug-eluting stent and the related procedure codes that were identified as bundled components. It is relevant for cardiology, hospital outpatient/inpatient billing, and professional coders who follow National Correct Coding Initiative updates and stent-related claims guidance. The article provides a high-level overview of the affected code sets and the timing of the edits without reproducing the underlying coding guidance in full.