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Question: Our office is interested in performing dobutamine stress echos. We bill 93350/93015 for the stress echo and would use J1250 for the dobutamine, but I am unsure what other codes may be applicable. Cheryl Agent Cardiac Care Associates, Crown Point, IN
It is a stress test in which the patient walks on a moving treadmill while the heart and breathing rates are monitored. Treadmill test (TMT) or exercise stress test is one of the commonest forms of stress tests used to induce provokable myocardial ischemia for diagnostic evaluation of coronary artery disease. Other forms of stress test are dobutamine stress echocardiography and adenosine stress test.