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PowerWire® RF Guidewire
Date: Feb 21, 2019
Question:
Baylis has a new wire (PowerWire® RF Guidewire) to cross a CTO in peripheral vessels with the use of radiofrequency energy. Can the ablation of the CTO be coded as an atherectomy?
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