Use of the PressureWire™3 can be reimbursed for both inpatients and outpatients using the following codes:

Inpatient

  Long Descriptor

Intravascular Doppler velocity and/or pressure derived coronary flow reserve measurements (coronary vessel or graft) during coronary angiography including pharmacological induced stress.
(These are incidental codes that must be used in conjunction with the code for the primary procedure.)

 

Code

Descriptor
  CPT 93571 Initial Vessel
  CPT 93571-TC Initial Vessel—Technical Component
  CPT 93571-26 Initial Vessel—Physician Component
  CPT 93572 Each Additional Vessel
  CPT 93572-TC Each Additional Vessel—Technical Component
  CPT 93572-26 Each Additional Vessel—Physician Component
Outpatient C 1769 Guide Wire
"Transitional pass-through payments for devices are established by taking the hospital charges for each billed item (on an item-by-item basis), reducing them to cost by use of the hospital’s cost-to-charge ratio, and subtracting an amount representing the device cost contained in the APC payments for procedures involving that device."

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