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36833

Date: Feb 1, 2018

Question:

I am auditing a case where a physician performed thrombectomy of an AV graft through an open incision and graftotomy. He then shoots a diagnostic fistulogram (bundled) and identifies a hemodynamically significant stenosis in the venous outflow. He treats this stenosis through a percutaneous stent placement. Can I report code 36833 for the combined procedures in this case since there was an open incision and thrombectomy to start the case and edits prevent coding 36831 and 36903 together?

Question ID : 10430
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