Echo & Carotid
I've been hearing that in 2009 medicare will no longer allow a carotid & echo to be performed on the same day. I've been looking thru the LCD's & cannot find any info to support this. I'm in...
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As far as I know the CCI edits won't be released until 1/1/09. I have not heard this but we previously had a problem with Aetna bundling the color flow into the carotid code(a few years ago). As one...
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Can we bill with the new Echo code 93306, 93320 & 93325? American College of Cardiology reads as if you can bill this combination but in the CPT book it doesn't indicate by note to bill in...
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93306 is the 2009 combination of 93307, 93325, 93320. Under normal circumstances, it would be inappropriate to bill with a 59 modifier. And fyi, it results in an approximately 20% drop in total...
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