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Crossover is now atherectomy

Date: Oct 5, 2011

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Bard, Inc. has apparently received approval from the FDA in August to market the CROSSER Recanalization System as an atherectomy device, equivalent to the Diamondback and Turbohawk devices. Does this change your opinion that use of the crossover catheter should not be billed as atherectomy (at least for the Bard device)? Can we now bill for atherectomy when we use the Bard crossover catheter to cross a lesion? Thank you in advance.

Question ID : 3268
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