I hope someone can assist me with this coding issue.

I am coding for the Cardiologist’s professional portion only, I am not responsible for the facility side. Our provider performs the interpretation and supplies a report for the Cardiovascular Stress Testing portion (CPT 93015-93018) of the MPI while the a radiologist provides the report for the imaging portion of the MPI Planar studies (78453-78454). Am I correct to only be coding the 93015-93018 for the cardiologist? Another coder in my group thinks I should be coding 78453,26 but I disagree because the report completed by the cardiologist only addresses the stress test component and does not make mention of any pharmacological agents, dosing of medication, etc…

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Sandy M