October 6, 2020
Non-Invasive Vascular Study Billing and Coding Article (A56697) Revision
There were errors in grouping within the non-invasive vascular study article that were identified and corrected.
A summary of the changes are as follows:
- The article is now grouped in to eight groups.
- Cerebrovascular arterial studies and transcranial doppler previously grouped together and now separated into Group 1 and Group 2, respectively.
- Extremity arterial studies are Group 3.
- Extremity venous studies are Group 4.
- Visceral vascular studies are Group 5.
- Hemodialysis access studies are Group 6.
- Pre-surgical conduit mapping for coronary artery bypass procedures has been moved to a new Group 7.
- Pre-surgical vein-mapping for peripheral arterial bypass has been moved to a new group 8.
- ICD 10 codes have been rearranged where needed to align with the correct group.
There was no change in coverage in this revision. No ICD-10 codes were removed or added. The changes were to correct grouping error that was identified.