CPT® 2017 At-A-Glance: Transluminal Balloon Angioplasty

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CPT 2017 At-A-Glance Transluminal Balloon
Angioplasty
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Out With the Old CPT 2017 Deletes These Codes
DELETING...
Percutaneous
Transluminal balloon angioplasty
Open
Renal or other visceral artery
35450
35471
35452
Aortic
35472
35458
Brachiocephalic trunk or branches, each vessel
35475
35460
Venous
35476
Dont forget about the deletion of the associated
supervision and interpretation (SI) codes, too

• 75962-75964 for peripheral artery angioplasty
  SI
• 75966-75968 for renal or other visceral artery
  angioplasty SI
• 75978 for venous angioplasty SI.

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In With the New CPT 2017 Adds These Codes
ARTERIES
Initial 37246, Transluminal balloon angioplasty
(except lower extremity arteryies for occlusive
disease, intracranial, coronary, pulmonary, or
dialysis circuit), open or percutaneous,
including all imaging and radiological
supervision and interpretation necessary to
perform the angioplasty within the same
artery initial artery Additional 37247,
each additional artery (List separately in
addition to code for primary procedure)
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In With the New CPT 2017 Adds These Codes
VEINS
Initial 37248, Transluminal balloon angioplasty
(except dialysis circuit), open or percutaneous,
including all imaging and radiological
supervision and interpretation necessary to
perform the angioplasty within the same
vein initial vein Additional 37249, each
additional vein (List separately in addition to
code for primary procedure)
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Not Sure Which Vessels These Codes Apply To?
ARTERIES
DO NOT use artery codes 37246 and 37247 for
these angioplasty services

• Lower extremity artery for occlusive disease
• Intracranial
• Coronary

• Pulmonary
• Dialysis circuit

VEINS
DO NOT use vein codes 37248 and 37249 for these
angioplasty services

• Dialysis circuit

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Not Sure Which Vessels These Codes Apply To?
VEINS
DO use vein codes 37248 and 37249 for these
angioplasty services (based on the AMA CPT
Indexs Angioplasty entry)

• Venous
• Visceral

• Renal
• Tibial/Peroneal, Balloon

VEINS
ARTERIES
DO use artery codes 37246 and 37247 for these
angioplasty services (based on the AMA CPT
Indexs Angioplasty entry)
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• Aorta
• Axillary
• Brachiocephalic

• Renal
• Subclavian
• Visceral

CAUTION The Index also lists the codes under
Angioplasty Tibial/Peroneal, Balloon, but watch
for when occlusive disease treatment codes from
3722x are more appropriate.
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