Cardiac Stress Testing: CPT codes covered if selection criteria are met: 93015 Cardiovascular stress test using maximal or submaximal treadmill or bicycle exercise, continuous electrocardiographic monitoring, and/or pharmacological stress; with supervision, interpretation and report 93016 supervision only, with...
1-3 However, given the morbidity of missed diagnoses, the American Heart Association (AHA) recommends noninvasive cardiac testing for inducible ischemia (exercise electrocardiogram [ECG], stress echocardiography, nuclear stress test) or anatomical coronary artery disease (coronary computed tomographic [CT...
CPT codes are created to describe services that are widely performed across the country and cannot be reported using another CPT code. CPT codes may be assigned in 3 possible categories: I, II, and III. Category I status is given to services and procedures that are widely performed, have ...
derived from augmentative algorithmic analysis of the dataset acquired via contrast cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), pharmacologic stress, with interpretation and report by a physician or other qualified health care professional (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure) ...
However, the technology requires the use of pharmacological stress agent adenosine and a wire pull back in the vessel, taking additional procedure time and adding cost to the procedure limiting adoption. Expanded use of FFR would likely take place if the technology was less expensive and easier ...
Further analysis was performed on endothelial subpopulation (clusters 1) with high expression of endothelium-specific markers, such as VWF and PECAM1 (Additional file1: Fig. S1E, F). Differential expression analysis between two conditions were conducted with the nonparametric Wilcoxon test in the Seur...