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Catheter exchange via separate access site

Date: Jan 28, 2019

Question:

What would you recommend when an indwelling catheter is removed and a new drainage catheter is inserted via a new access in a different location, but still treating the same lymphocele? Would this still be an exchange, or would you code a new insertion?

Question ID : 11970
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