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61630 and 61650
Date: Feb 5, 2021
Question:
My provider is doing balloon angioplasty for atherosclerotic disease in the left common artery (61630). He is also treating pre-existing vasospam in the left vertebral and left ICA. Would he be allowed to bill the left ICA 61650 when he has treated the left common with 61630 during the same session? With these being the same vascular family, I'm unsure if we can use modifier -59 to bypass the NCCI edit. The following is the proposed coding: Left common 61630, left ICA 61650, and left vertebral 61651.
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