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Date: Nov 7, 2019

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Doctor performed mechanical thrombectomy and angioplasty of left subclavian and axillary veins. I asked if this was one long lesion of the subclavian/axillary OR was it separate lesions in both vessels. He responded it was one long lesion. I billed only 37248 because it was one lesion crossing two vessels. "A 14 x 40 balloon was inflated in the subclavian, deflated, and pulled back into axillary vein." Should I have billed 37249 also?

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