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ICA thrombectomy and cervical ICA PTA with embolic protection

Date: Oct 11, 2019

Question:

Patient has ICA occlusion. It was treated with thrombectomy and angioplasty of cervical portion of the same vessel. Distal embolic protection was used for angioplasty. Can we code both procedures, or only thrombectomy?

Question ID : 13095
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