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MUCH confusion on the MD billing for programing - MD states he is programing and rep is in the OR. Example op note: "Next, the device was programmed by turning on the wand and programming the pulse generator for more than 3 parameters. After the impedance was checked, it was noted to be quite high initially and I removed and cleaned out the lead and reconnected this to the generator and got a good reading of under 1800 at this point in time. Next, this was correlated with the heart rate and the other parameters and a copy of this is saved in the chart. Once this was performed, the VNS was turned off."