Medicare pays $1309 on average nationally for this procedure.

CPT code 36222 describes imaging supervision and interpretation for angiography in which a catheter is inserted through a distal artery into the thoracic aorta and advanced into the common carotid artery or cervicocerebral arch, with injection of contrast material to obtain X‑ray images for evaluation of vascular disease; this is an angiographic vascular imaging service typically performed in an interventional radiology or vascular surgery suite or cardiac catheterization lab and is billed as a diagnostic cerebral/carotid angiography procedure involving catheter-based access and contrast-enhanced fluoroscopic imaging.

For related coverage guidance, see recent payer policy updates: Lumbar Microdiscectomy, Artificial Cervical Intervertebral Disc, Lumbar Decompression.