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93653

Date: Dec 22, 2023

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I have a question regarding your response to Question #19449. You advised that since the physician documents "Successful ablation for slow pathway for treatment of typical AVNRT" to code 93653 even though the patient was not inducible for Atrial tachycardia or Atrial Fibrillation during the EP study and it was an "empiric" ablation? I thought we are not to code empiric ablations. Please clarify. Thank you in advance.

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