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Date: Jun 27, 2012

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Please do NOT include any actual patient medical records with your question. contralateral catheterization of SFA(36247)with ekos lytic catheter infusion (37201, 75896) performed on first day of the SFA; patient returns following day and follow up angiogram (75898) finds occluded peroneal artery and peroneal artery is selectively cannulated and AngioJet Thrombectomy is performed of peroneal artery (37184)---Do we code the catheter selection of peroneal artery (36245)on second day or is it still the same catheter placed on the first day and only 37184 and 75898 would be coded for following day? Thank you.
Question ID : 3858
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