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AAA Repair with bilateral internal iliac embolizations.

Date: Jan 28, 2019

Question:

"Patient has documented ruptured AAA. Physician embolizes each internal iliac artery from separate accesses and then places the modular bifurcated device with two docking limbs that land in the external iliacs covering each internal iliac." Would you bill 34706 with one 37242 since facilitating the AAA repair, or would you add 37242-59 since both internal iliacs were embolized from separate accesses?

Question ID : 11957
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