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Foreign body retrieval during COA/AMI DES

Date: Oct 15, 2018

Question:

I can bill 37197 when a wire is fractured during a coronary intervention, correct? Physician had just finished doing intervention on patient having AMI. Patient became restless and pulled back guide, balloon, and wire back into the aorta. Physician removed all devices. Went back in with guided to do angiogram and saw a fraction of the wire in the subclavian. Then went in with a snare and removed the wire.

Question ID : 11505
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