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If EP ablation is done for all 3 which is primary?

Date: Oct 17, 2019

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If patient comes in with atrial tachycardia, atrial flutter, and atrial fibrillation, and all three mechanisms were ablated, what determines which should be the primary CPT code? Supraventricular tachycardia ablation (Atrial tachycardia), Atrial Fibrillation Ablation (pulmonary vein isolation), Additional ablation of discrete arrhythmia (atrial flutter ablation), Electrophysiology Study, Electroanatomical 3D mapping, CS/LA pace and record, intracardiac echo, transseptal left heart catheterization, programmed stimulation after IV drug infusion.

Question ID : 13149
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