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Venous Ultrasound

Date: Jan 23, 2020

Question:

A patient presents for dialysis Permacath placement. The physician states, “I will also assess his veins for hopeful AV fistula creation in the near future.” After the Permacath insertion is completed, the physician states, “I inspected his arms with B-mode ultrasound and the basilic and cephalic veins in both arms were not adequate for AV fistula creation.” This is the only documentation we have for the ultrasound procedure; there is also no saved ultrasound image in the record. Is this procedure codeable? If so, how?

Question ID : 13519
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