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35661

Date: May 23, 2012

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Greetings, A patient has a fem-fem graft that adheared to the bladder wall. The physician transects the graft on the left and right side of the bladder and removes the graft and repairs the bladder wall. Next he places a PTFE graft on top of the rectus sheath and attatches this to the ends of the PTFE graft that was still attached to the left and right femoral artery. I'm thinking this is a unlisted 37799 and basing the RVU on 35881. I do not think I would code excision of the graft (bundled). Thoughts? LW
Question ID : 3813
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