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Attempted defibrillaror (only venogram, then cancel)

Date: Oct 21, 2010

Question:

Please do NOT include any actual patient medical records with your question. A patient was brought in for an ICD implant, prior to the implant a venogram was done and it was decided not to continue with the implant, because there was too much occlusion. Would you still code 33249 with a 74 modifier since anesthesia was administered? Coding is for the hospital side and done as an outpatient surgery. And would there be a problem since no C-code was reported? Thank you.

Question ID : 2357
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