Cardiology Question for the Week of December 28, 2015

By NDueaCardiology
Cardiology Compliance Question of the Week

Question:

If a patient has a diagnostic heart cath with IVUS one day and then is taken back to have intracoronary stents deployed with IVUS the next day, can IVUS be coded at both sessions? 

Answer:

If medically necessary, IVUS could be coded a second time as long as the physician’s dictated report describes why it was used a second time.

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