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Selective Catheter Placements

Date: Aug 22, 2022

Question:

Accessing the patient from the tibial vessels. Example: Dorsalis pedis and going up to the Iliac vessels taking pictures on the way up. What selective catheter placements can be coded when no intervention is done? If selective catheter placement cannot be billed, please give me rationale as to why not and what you would code?

Question ID : 17658
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