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VT Ablation

Date: Feb 25, 2019

Question:

A VT ablation was done by one of our providers, and the following sentence was documented in the note: "Epicardial access was then obtained using an epicardial needle from the subxiphoid approach." I have not seen this documented before. How would that be coded?

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