Question

During an inpatient hospitalization, a patient who suffered myocardial infarction had a combined right and left heart catheterization. access was achieved through the right femoral artery and the right femoral vein. selective catheterization of the coronary arteries and selective catheterization of the left ventricle were followed by injections of contrast and angiography. during right heart catheterization, angiography of the right atrium was performed. imaging supervision, interpretation and report for all angiography was performed during the cardiac catheterization. select the cpt® code(s) for this procedure by the cardiologist.

Answer 1

For the procedure explained above, the CPT code will be 93460-26, 93566.
CPT stands for Current Procedural Terminology. It is a set of medical codes set by American Medical association for the procedures used in any medical condition.
The CPT code for inpatient is 99251-99255.
The code for myocardial infarction and cardiac catheterization with angiography can be searched on the website.