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Placement and removal of an event recorder on the same day

Date: Apr 27, 2012

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Dr. Z, In the outpatient setting, how would you report the replacement of an implanted cardiac event recorder at a single session due to its end of life? There is a CCI edit for mutually exclusive procedure between 33282 and 33284. Thank you!
Question ID : 3714
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