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Lead replacement with pacemaker generator relocation

Date: Oct 21, 2019

Question:

I am reviewing a case where the physician needs to relocate the patient's pacemaker from the right to the left due to radiation treatment. In the process the physician removed the RV lead and inserted a new RV lead, but attached the lead to the existing generator. Is it appropriate to report 33222-XU for the generator relocation, with 33234 for lead extraction and 33216 for new lead insertion?

Question ID : 13177
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