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Please help with the CPT code I have never seeing this before and not sure at all what to bill? Thank you as always for you guidence. Procedure: Fluoroscopy of the patient's right and left hemidiaphram. Preoperative diagnosis: Patient with dyspnea and x-ray yesterday that was supposed to be inspiration and expiration but only insporation and today's x-ray of expiration showing what appears to be little movement of the rt hmidiaphragm. The patient is approximately 10 days status post Pulmonary vein isolation. Postoperative diagnosis: fluoroscopy demonstrates paralysis of the right hemidiaphram. Lft hemidiaphragm moves normally.