Medicare Benefits Schedule - Item 38241

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Category 3 - THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES

38241

38241 - Additional Information

Item Start Date:
01-Nov-2006
Description Updated:
01-Jul-2021
Schedule Fee Updated:
01-Nov-2023

Group
T8 - Surgical Operations
Subgroup
6 - Cardio-Thoracic
Subheading
1 - Cardiology Procedures

Use of a coronary pressure wire, if the service is:

(a) performed during selective coronary angiography, percutaneous angioplasty or transluminal insertion of one or more stents; and

(b) to measure fractional flow reserve, non-hyperaemic pressure ratios or coronary flow reserve in intermediate coronary artery or graft lesions (stenosis of 50 to 70%); and

(c) to determine whether revascularisation is appropriate, if previous functional imaging:

(i) has not been performed; or

(ii) has been performed but the results are inconclusive or do not apply to the vessel being interrogated; and

(d) performed on one or more coronary vascular territories

 

Multiple Operation Rule

(Anaes.)

Fee: $516.90 Benefit: 75% = $387.70 85% = $439.40


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