Renal stents

[CCO-support]

Laureen,
I am the very fortunate recipient of you Blitz prize from attending the Webinar. Thank you again!
I am having difficulty coding stents along with other procedures performed in a non-coronary vessel.
As I understand it, for non-coronary we need to code all the components plus the radiological supervision separately.
So would you mind working through an example all in the same vessel?
Rt renal artery - catheter placement
Rt renal artery - arteriography
Rt renal artery - PCTA
Rt renal artery - 1 stent

Thank you!

 

[Ruth Sheets]

Laureen has a youtube video on this called
Medical Coding Help- Cardiovascular Stents

Laureen goes through this example, and there is a transcript of the video posted below the video. At the end of the video, Laureen mentions that the cms.gov website has a PDF on noncoronary stent coding. I found this one:
http://downloads.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/lcd_attachments/30798_1/L30798_CV028_cbg_060110.pdf

Hope this is helpful!