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Carotid shortening during endarterectomy

Date: Jan 7, 2022

Question:

Can you bill a separate code for carotid shortening during an endarterectomy? The common carotid is being excised for the purposes of ICA straightening. My provider seems to think that you can bill code 35201 (repair blood vessel, direct: neck) along with the 35301.

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