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Artifiical ascites procedure

Date: Feb 15, 2023

Question:

Hi Dr Z, We have a physician who is performing artificial ascites when performing ablation of a kidney mass. He is placing a cath between the kidney and liver and introducing fluid to separate the liver from the kidney to safely be able to ablate the mass, How would you code this? Do you feel that it would bundle into the ablation procedure 50592 where performed to safely perform procedure or do you feel we can charge for this separately maybe with an unlisted code where this is not always performed? I appreciate any help on this where the physician feels he should be able to charge for this and I am not seeing any information on coding for this.

Thank you for your help,

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