Common questions about Capture — how it generates CPT and ICD-10 codes from operative notes for vascular surgery and interventional radiology, how it handles bundling rules and modifiers, and how it supports audit and clawback defense.
What does Capture do?
Capture turns operative notes into accurate CPT and ICD-10 billing codes for vascular surgery. The Pro tier also drafts and enhances op-notes and produces audit / clawback defense documentation.
Who is Capture built for?
Capture is purpose-built for the proceduralists who bill peripheral vascular and endovascular cases — vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists, along with their advanced practice providers (PAs and NPs) — in private practice, hospital systems, and multi-specialty groups. It is tuned for the vascular CPT families (the 35xxx–37xxx series, catheter placement, dialysis access, and aortic work) rather than general medical coding.
How much revenue do vascular surgeons lose to missed CPT codes?
Vascular surgery generates high procedural revenue, but documentation burden and coding complexity mean cases are routinely under-coded — often tens of thousands of dollars per surgeon each year in missed capture, on top of denials and post-payment clawbacks. Capture reads the finished operative note and surfaces the codes and modifiers that are easy to miss.
How does Capture handle CPT bundling rules?
Many vascular CPT codes bundle others — a combined endovascular code can include the angioplasty, atherectomy, and stent work performed in the same vessel, and dialysis-circuit codes bundle thrombectomy, angioplasty, and stenting. Capture applies these bundling rules automatically so you don't unbundle services that should be combined (a common audit trigger) or drop work that is separately reportable.
Which CPT modifiers does Capture apply?
Capture reasons about modifiers the way an experienced coder does, from the operative note rather than a fixed checklist — laterality (for example -LT, -RT, or -50 for bilateral procedures), distinct-service modifiers (the -59 / -XE / -XS / -XP / -XU family) applied only where two same-session services genuinely unbundle, and assistant-at-surgery modifiers keyed to the credential in the note (for example -80 for a physician assistant surgeon versus -AS for an NP, PA, or CNS). The examples are illustrative; because it works from the note and the code families, it generalizes to the modifier decisions each case actually calls for.
Which procedures and CPT code families does Capture cover?
Capture works across the full range of peripheral vascular and endovascular work rather than a fixed list of codes. It reasons over the CPT code families the way a coder does — angioplasty, atherectomy, stenting, and combined interventions across each arterial territory (iliac, femoral-popliteal, tibial, inframalleolar), plus catheter placement, dialysis-access circuits, IVUS, and open reconstruction — on the current 2026 code set (for example the 37254–37299 lower-extremity revascularization families). Individual codes are only examples: the model is built to handle new and revised codes within these families, and it has been built and validated with practicing vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists, who bill these same families every day.
Does Capture generate ICD-10 diagnosis codes too?
Yes. For every procedure it codes, Capture also suggests the ICD-10 diagnosis codes that justify it — grounded in the operative note — so the claim has matching procedure and diagnosis coding, including the laterality digit (for example I70.221 for the right leg versus I70.222 for the left).
How does Capture help defend against audits and clawbacks?
Capture produces audit-defensible documentation for the codes it suggests, and the Pro tier enhances operative notes with the medical-decision-making and anatomic detail payers look for on post-payment review. The goal is codes that hold up so you keep the revenue you earned.
How is Capture different from a medical scribe?
A scribe transcribes encounters. Capture is a billing tool: it reads finished operative notes and outputs accurate, defensible CPT/ICD-10 codes specifically for vascular surgery cases.
How is patient data protected?
Capture is a US-based company with HIPAA-aware controls. Contact hello@joincapture.ai for BAA inquiries.
How much does Capture cost?
Standard is $499/month for ICD-10 and CPT coding. Pro is $999/month (coming soon) and adds op-note creation, enhancement, and audit / clawback defense. Enterprise pricing is available for missed coding capture and full revenue cycle management.
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