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35903

Date: Sep 15, 2011

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Greetings, I have a physician excise a infected A V fistula. The pt had 2 PTFE segements attached (two different fistulas) to the brachial artery. 35903 has a MUE of 2. I assume this means one for the Rt side and one for the Lt side. Both of these were removed on the same side. Would you code for two excision of infected grafts (35903 and 35903-59). Also the brachial artery was two friable so he had to place a graft to connect the proximal and distal end of the brachial artery code (35266). 35266 is bundled per CCI but it can be bypassed but its not a different area or different session. The best I can come up with is a 35903-22. How would you code this? LW

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