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"Diagnosis: Thrombosis common femoral artery and separate thrombosis of superficial femoral artery with dissection. Procedure performed: Thrombectomy of common femoral artery and endarterectomy of superficial femoral artery, which was oversewn with Prolene suture and encompassed the origin of the profundus femoris artery. Xenograft patch was performed in diamond-shaped fashion with running sutures." Would this be billed with 35302 (superficial femoral artery code) or another thromboenderectomy code, since this appears to encompass the profunda artery? And would you report code 34201 for thrombectomy of common femoral artery separately? (All performed from same incision.)