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Date: Jan 9, 2023
Question:
The coding book says that 33902 can be used to stent a PDA via abnormal connections or post-surgical shunts. What about our PDA stents we are doing now, generally from carotid artery or femoral artery through the PDA into PAs for access? These patients all have CHD, so they do have abnormal connections, but technically our access to the PDA (which isn’t through the heart) isn’t “via abnormal connections”. Is this still the code we can bill for this case?
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