tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 20

CODING & REIMBURSEMENT: You Can Keep Using CPT Codes For Selective Angiography

Rules return to 2004 version The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services caused a stir when it changed the definitions for two angiography codes: non-selective renal angiography (G0275) and non-selective iliac and/or femoral angiography (G0278). For the 2005 update to the HCPCS code set, CMS removed the word "non-selective" from the descriptors for both codes. Coding experts feared this meant "you would have to use these codes for all nonselective and selective renal and iliofemoral angiograms, and that meant not getting paid for a selective procedure," says Deborah Ovall, lead coder and data quality analyst with Medical College...

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