Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, January 7th, 2005
The newly assigned codes will enable tracking of IVUS procedures separately from other types of ultrasound procedures. Boston Scientific's IVUS technology differs from other traditional ultrasound technologies in that it provides views from inside a patient's blood vessels rather than from the outside.
With this new seven-code subcategory, specific IVUS use can now be tracked through hospital data to assist with resource alignment as...
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