tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 12

Stent Overhaul: 37217 and More Change Your Vascular Stent Coding in CPT ® 2014

Look for additions and deletions next year. If your general and vascular surgeons perform transcatheter placement of intravascular stents or retrograde stenting of the carotid or innominate arteries, you need to go to coding school for next year. That’s because with five code deletions and five code additions, CPT® 2014 reworks everything you currently know about reporting these services. Read on to get the scoop so you’ll be ready when the code changes go into effect on Jan. 1, 2014. Replace Transcatheter Stent Placement Codes You’ll no longer use the following five codes beginning the first...

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