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AV Graft/Fistula when Collaterals Are Embolized, One Access

Date: Aug 20, 2013

Question:

I've heard from several people (who listened to a webinar today) say that collateral vein embolization does not require deleting code 36147 and replacing with 36011 and 75791 in addition to embolization codes. And that code 75791 would never be used in an IR case - only in OR if a patient was received there with an existing access. Your thoughts?

Question ID : 5029
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