Please note this question was answered in 2020. The coding advice may or may not be outdated.
Ascending aorta aneurysm and atrial fibrillation
Date: Oct 8, 2020
Question:
The patient had open aneurysm repair (33859), and at the same time for atrial fibrillation had pulmonary vein isolation and left atrial appendage exclusion. I ended up coding the last two procedures as 33999, as I do not see codes for doing these as open. Do you agree?
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