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TEVAR with cutdown and bypass

Date: Dec 19, 2018

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We had a TEVAR that had complications. Per procedure: "Upon removal of the stent graft, we encountered resistance. Reliant balloon was placed in infrarenal aorta to control bleeding." Quick summary: "Based on removal of external graft, there was injury to right external iliac, which ended up requiring stent grafting of the iliac artery and subsequent cutdown for ligation of right common iliac artery and fem-fem bypass." We coded as 33881, 75957. Would the extra work be considered billable as 37617, 34820, 34813?

Question ID : 11783
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