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Code 33249

Date: Mar 7, 2013

Question:

Need your help with the following scenarios: (1) Patient had a biventricular pacer/defib that had reached end-of-life and admitted for generator replacement. The RV lead was also replaced and new generator attached to new RV lead and Chronic RA/LV leads. Would this be reported with code 33249? (2) Same scenario except the RV lead was a recall lead. Would this be reported with codes 33264/33216 or code 33249? Thanks.

Question ID : 4404
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