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Y-90, Yttrium embolization of liver metastasis
Date: Oct 30, 2012
Question:
Dr.Z, My radiologist has told me that we are going to do a Ittrium Y-90 radio-embolizaton on a patient with Colo-recto mestastasis. We will do angiograms for a road map,with embolizations and the MAA injection. We will bring the patient back in for the radio embolization two weeks later. Will I need any specific codes for the radio-embolization, or is it still coded as 75894/37204? I have the case of the month,November 2011-Visceral Angiogram w/Embo and Injection of MAA for guidance. I just want to make sure that I have the correct codes for the radio embolization procedure. Are there Nuclear Medicine codes that need to be considered? Thank you, R. Mercer 8-30-12
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