Billing and Coding: Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)

This billing and coding guidance clarifies appropriate CPT/HCPCS usage for transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) related to transcatheter intracardiac therapies: use CPT 93355 for TEE during interventions (reportable once per intervention and only by a non-operator), use CPT 93312/C8925 for contrast complete procedures, and CPT 93315/C8926 for congenital anomalies. Documentation must be complete, legible, signed, support the selected ICD-10-CM diagnosis, and all same-day services by the same provider must be billed on the same claim; non-covered services per the LCD must not be billed as covered and require appropriate modifiers.

"CPT code 93355 is used to report transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) performed during transcatheter intracardiac therapies."

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