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Pulmonary Stress Test: How to Differentiate Stress Test Codes and Get Your Claim Paid the First Time Around

Published in Internal Medicine Coding Alert, July 2010

Find out what blood-draw and analysis codes you can report separately.
Pulmonary stress tests (PST, a.k.a. exercise testing) come in handy when your internist wants to evaluate a patient with symptoms of shortness of breath, stridor and/or wheezing that occurs only when exercising. You can pick out one from the two code options that describe a PST, and discern the difference by the amount of equipment a test requires. CPT 94621 (Pulmonary stress testing; complex [including [...]


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Published in Internal Medicine Coding Alert, July 2010
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