tci Part B Insider - 2013 Issue 21

Reader Question: Know When CCI Bundles Procedures

Question: When we are billing out a transcranial Doppler (TCD), we use codes 93886, 93893, 93892, and 93890. Can we not bill these certain codes together? Also, we used to bill dynamic flow with 93875 and the code was deleted in 2012. Is there a new code that we can use? Answer: Code 93892 (Transcranial Doppler study of the intracranial arteries; emboli detection without intravenous microbubble injection) is bundled into 93893 (Transcranial Doppler study of the intracranial arteries; emboli detection with intravenous microbubble injection). So you should not report 93982 and 93983 together. You can bill together for 93886...

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