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Pulmonary angiography with thrombectomy

Date: Nov 18, 2021

Question:

I have several cases where our physicians are performing pulmonary embolectomies on the bilateral pulmonary vessels. They are documentation that because of the patient's status (embolism with acute cor pulmonale), the initial aspiration of the right pulmonary vessel is being done based off of the CT angiography. So they do the aspiration on the right side, then bilateral pulmonary angiography, then aspiration on the left side. Would you only bill for the unilateral (left) angiography since the right side isn't being done until after the intervention?

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