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Date: Jun 15, 2010

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Dr. Z - Our physician is performing a re-do of a 'femoral-posterior tibial artery' bypass graft using cryopreserved vein graft. I know I can bill 35700 for the re-do portion. I am trying to decide if I should be billing 35566 because he is still using vein, even though he is not harvesting it or do I go with 35666 because the procedure is more comparable to using a synthetic graft in that no harvesting is done? I would appreciate some guidance on which direction to head.

Question ID : 2202
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