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Endoleak treatment with 37205

Date: Jan 19, 2012

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Please do NOT include any actual patient medical records with your question. Hello again, If a patient returns for endoleak a few days after AAA repair, and two Palmaz stent are deployed in the AAA neck and two more additioanal extensions in the common iliacs can I charge for the stents (37205 & 37206). I am heading more for a "NO" as this were done for anchoring purposes not for stenoses.. Please Advise...
Question ID : 3331
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