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61626 or 37244

Date: Oct 3, 2023

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Patient had a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy with intraoperative course complicated by oropharyngeal bleeding. IR did cerebral angiography of internal carotid (36224), external carotid and facial artery (36227). Coil embolization was then done of the left inferior pharyngeal artery and again in the left ascending palatine artery.

Your previous guidance, question ID 18819, states to code to the highest level performed when it is a bleeding tumor, but would the same guidance apply for intracranial or extracranial arteries? Would this be 61626 (75894, 75898) or 37244?

Question ID : 19496
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