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Staged cases for lower extremity revascularization

Date: Jul 23, 2021

Question:

If a patient is being treated with intervention in the right tibial vessels for a CTO, and the patient is then brought back in one week to intervene on the right femoral/popliteal, does this require modifier -58 for the second procedure? Or bill "normally"?

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