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Temporary Pacemaker
Date: Oct 4, 2021
Question:
Patient comes in ER with complete heart block, and provider places a temporary transvenous pacemaker that was advanced into the right ventricle using fluoroscopic guidance (33210). The following day, the same provider had to do an implantation of an active fixation temporary pacemaker lead to facilitate ambulation over the weekend, because the primary provider that would perform the permeant pacemaker procedure is not available until the following week. Would I report code 33211 for the dual chamber temporary pacemaker?
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