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Aspiration Thrombectomy

Date: Mar 22, 2013

Question:

Is non-mechanical aspiration thrombectomy chargeable, or is it included in the intervention procedure? If it is chargeable, which code should we use now that code 92973 is for mechanical thrombectomy only?  If it is included in the intervention, and it is done without any intervention procedure, is there a code that we can use?

Question ID : 4455
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