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Accurate coding depends on which elements your physician performed.
Review the 2012 Echocardiography guidelines that precede 93303-+93352, and you'll find new wording that clarifies coding for a stress test with a stress echo.
Complete:
When a single physician performs a stress echo and a complete cardiovascular stress test, report 93351 (Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation [2D], includes M-mode recording, when performed, during rest and cardiovascular stress test using treadmill, bicycle exercise and/or pharmacologically induced stress, with interpretation and report; including performance of continuous electrocardiographic monitoring, with physician supervision).Professional component only:
If your cardiologist provides only the professional component of the stress [...]