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Part of the heart cath or no

Date: Jul 31, 2020

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Physician performed a left heart cath with a root injection. She states, "Root injection to access anomalous coronary arteries." Her recommendations were, "CTA of coronaries to define origin and course of left coronary arteries." Would you say no code for the injection, because it was necessary to complete the diagnostic heart cath?

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