Medical Coding

Category - 30,000 Series

You can find codes for cardiovascular services in the three different chapters within the CPT manual. They are:
  1. Surgery, Anesthesia, and Medicine
  2. Surgery, Medicine, and Laboratory
  3. Medicine, Radiology, and Evaluation and Management
  4. Surgery, Radiology, and Medicine
Explanation
Answer: D - You can find codes for cardiovascular services within the surgery, radiology, and medicine chapters. Cardiovascular codes are located throughout the CPT manual. Invasive surgical procedures, such as heart transplants and some cardiac catheterization codes are located within the surgery chapter. Radiological guidance for cardiovascular services such as: catheterizations are located within the radiology chapter. Other cardiovascular codes are found within the medicine chapter, which contains procedure codes for non-invasive or less invasive services such as: cardiovascular stress tests and programming of pacemakers.
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