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STEMI intervention delay unavoidable

Date: Jun 10, 2022

Question:

A patient was transferred from a smaller facility for STEMI. MD documented that the patient was delayed in our ER due to another case being performed in the cath lab and no other team available and that the patient was brought to the cath lab as soon as they were able. A LHC and angiography was performed and drug-eluting stent placed in the LCX (culprit lesion). Can we still code C9606 for the AMI intervention?

Question ID : 17373
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