Effective March 30, 2020, the AmeriHealth Claim Payment
Policy #03.02.12c: Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) Reported with Single Photon
Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI)
will be archived.
Reason for policy archival
AmeriHealth follows Medicare Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) Code Pair
Edits, and the following CPT® procedure codes will be applied to
the reporting of ECG/EKG codes in conjunction with SPECT for MPI:
Service type
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Procedure codes
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ECG/EKG
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SPECT for MPI
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Learn more
Advance notification of archival was posted on the Medical Policy
Portal on December 27, 2019. To view this Notification, visit the Medical Policy
Portal.
For more information about NCCI coding, please review Claim Payment Policy
#00.01.56a: National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Code Pair Edits, which is
available on our Medical Policy Portal.
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