The ABI Blunder That Blows Away $120 Per Cardiology Claim

Posted on 17. Feb, 2009 by Editor in Hot Coding Topics

5 essentials help keep your noninvasive study codes watertight.

Your practice may use ankle/brachial indices (ABIs) to help diagnose some of the 8 million Americans who have peripheral arterial disease. But if you miss CPT’s guidance on hardcopies for noninvasive

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2 Responses to “The ABI Blunder That Blows Away $120 Per Cardiology Claim”

  1. Debbie Walsh

    12. Mar, 2009

    This article on ABI Blunders is very useful and answered some of the questions I needed to research. Thank you!

  2. Tresa Boyd

    08. Dec, 2009

    discussion in my group, if a family practice provider checks bilateral ankle and elbow with hand held device and hand writes blood pressure results on a printed diagram, can they charge for that in addition to the E/M code? If so, what CPT Code can they bill?

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