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US guidance for vascual access with lower extremity revascularization
Date: May 8, 2012
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Please do NOT include any actual patient medical records with your question. We have been billing 76937 with our lower extremity interventions 37220-37231 if a hard copy is documented/saved for the ultrasound guided arterial access. We are now getting edits that the add-on 76937 is only to be used with catheter procedures(36100-36248)and procedures 37220-37231 are not included as part of the list for 76937. Would you still bill out 76937 with lower extremity interventions 37220-37231 since the selective catheterizations are now included with these interventions and disregard the edits?
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