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PICC Placement

Date: Aug 9, 2019

Question:

If a nurse places a PICC line using US guidance (but does not keep a permanent image), and then a chest x-ray is done to confirm tip location (with permanent image), is this enough to report the "with imaging guidance" code? Or would this be coded as 36569?

Question ID : 12905
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