Cardiology: Check Out These New, Revised 2016 HCPCS Codes to Keep Your Income Flowing

Why This Topic Matters

HCPCS revisions can change how cardiology-related drugs, imaging services, and supplies are reported and paid. Staying current helps practices align charge capture and documentation processes with Medicare and payer rules.

Article Sections

1. Lumason: Out With the Old, In With the Q

   Discusses a 2016 HCPCS update involving an ultrasound contrast agent used in cardiology, along with related reporting context, unit considerations, and Medicare waste policy references.

2. Pick Up C Code for PCI Drug Cangrelor

   Covers a newly available HCPCS drug reporting item associated with an intravenous antiplatelet therapy used in percutaneous coronary intervention settings.

3. Modifier CT Means a TC Pay Cut

   Summarizes a Medicare imaging payment policy update tied to CT services and the addition of a modifier used to identify affected services.

4. Bonus: Varithena Application Reveals Coding Tips

   Reviews preliminary HCPCS meeting guidance involving a venous treatment product and its relationship to procedure reporting and supply coding.