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Advocacy For Cardiologists Advocacy Effort: CPT Change Requests On July 11, 2007, The Cardiology Coalition, now CardiologyCoder.Com, submitted the following CPT Change requests to The American Medical Association (AMA) for incorporation in the 2009 edition of CPT. Most of these change requests, when accepted, will facilitate correction of erroneous parenthetical notes, vague/inaccurate CPT reporting instructions, and anatomically incorrect diagrams. The necessity for each requested change request will be apparent upon review of the involved sections of the 2008 CPT book after reading the change requests. In order for change requests to be reflected in CPT, they must have the support of the American College of Cardiology (the specialty society that represents cardiologists in dealings with the AMA). The change requests specific to the parenthetical notes of codes 93609 (two-dimensional arrhythmia mapping) & 93613 (three-dimensional arrhythmia mapping) received the support of the American College of Cardiology and are expected to be reflected in the 2009 edition of CPT. The others were repealed at the request of the specialty societies so that they could more fully review and consider the proposed changes. These proposed changes are being made public so that coders and cardiologists can be aware of the problems with the current code structure, as a way to solicit feedback: in support or opposition of the change requests, and as a way to stimulate dialogue between cardiologists and their specialty society. It appears that correction of these errors may require the voices of several individual cardiologists. Box 10 of each change request indicates what needs to be changed in the 2008 edition of CPT, box 13 explains the necessity for each change request. Reviewing these documents along with the CPT book is optimal. To review any of the change requests just click on the appropriate link below. Please share your thoughts about these change requests with us by completing the feedback form presented below. If you have additional, cardiology specific, CPT changes that you would like us to consider for inclusion in our advocacy effort please describe them on your feedback form. |
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