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Manipulation of Existing Tunneled PleurX Drainage Catheter

Date: Feb 1, 2018

Question:

"A patient with pleural effusion and an existing tunneled PleurX drainage catheter is taken for a tunneled pleural catheter check. Subsequently found to have PleurX catheter malfunction. A Bentson wire and subsequently an angled glidewire were advanced into the catheter. These could not be advanced through the entire length of the catheter. Subsequently, a Roadrunner catheter was successfully advanced through the entirety of the catheter length. The catheter was slightly manipulated with the guidewire." Would unlisted code 32999 be the proper coding of the guidewire manipulation of the existing tunneled PleurX drainage catheter of the right pleural space?

Question ID : 10356
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