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Direct Suture Repair Iliac Artery and Vein

Date: Jul 22, 2019

Question:

When a vascular surgeon is called in to a procedure due to bleeding, and performs direct suture repair of both the iliac artery and the iliac vein in the same surgical site, can we report code 35226 twice for the repair of the artery and the vein?

Question ID : 12815
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