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Balloon Occlusion Test coding

Date: Oct 6, 2023

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According to your Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Coding Reference, we can code the RS&I codes for any truly diagnostic imaging performed in the intracranial or extracranial vasculature that is the same vessel in which a balloon occlusion test was later performed during the same surgical session (61623). Since the RS&I codes of the intracranial and extracranial arteries were deleted in 2013 when the bundled codes came out, do we just code 3622X-52 if they performed diagnostic imaging prior to performing the BOT test in that same vessel during the same surgical session?

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