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Aortic Angioplasty in Prior Stent, Code 35472

Date: Mar 12, 2013

Question:

When a physican goes in to dilate a previously placed stent, do you bill an unlisted code or do you code the angioplasty code for that vessel? For example, patient has an area of stenosis within a previously placed stent within the aorta and the physician does balloon dilation of the stent within the aorta, do you use code 93799 or 35472? Thanks so much for your help!

Question ID : 4433
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