246X00000X
246X00000X — Cardiovascular Specialist/Technologist
- Grouping
- Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
- Classification
- Specialist/Technologist Cardiovascular
- Specialization
- None — this code IS the classification
- Section
- Individual
Definition
An allied health professional who performs diagnostic examinations at the request or direction of a physician in one or more of the following three areas: invasive cardiology, noninvasive cardiology, and noninvasive peripheral vascular study. Cardiovascular technologists are one type of allied health professional for which the Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation has accredited education programs
NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.
Other codes under Specialist/Technologist Cardiovascular
These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.
- 246XC2901XCardiovascular Invasive Specialist
- 246XC2903XVascular Specialist
- 246XS1301XSonography