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Catheter placement following day
Date: Dec 17, 2010
Question:
Hi Dr.Z, After Overnight thrombolysis in SFA, the patient comes in for evaluation and diagnosed for peroneal artery thormbus using thrombectomy & angioplasty for the stenosis in anterior tibial artery. I am not sure whether we need to code the catheterization as 36247-52 for this case..Please clarify when we need to code the catheterizations along with therapeutic treatments on the following day of the treatments. Regards Prabhavathi, India
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