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36147

Date: May 9, 2012

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Please do NOT include any actual patient medical records with your question. Dr. Dunn, Open thrombectomy and open PTA- of AV graft performed. Then in a retrograde fashion, fistula accessed and fistulogram performed and stenosis at arterial anastomosis. PTA performed over a guidewire, my question - is it 36147 or 75791 since first fistulogram performed is not through direct fistula cannualtion. And my second question can we code only one PTA here 35475 along with 36831? Thanks
Question ID : 3758
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