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Selective Cath and Embolization

Date: Aug 29, 2013

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If an embolization was performed either in the cerebral (61624) or extracranial (61626) vasculature, and a diagnostic angiogram was NOT performed (let’s say it was done the day prior or somewhere else), you code for the embolization and the selective catheter placements for each vessel selectively catheterized in order to drop the coils, correct? For example, a meningioma off the IMA, and we embolize three arteries in order to block blood flow... would be coded as 61626, 36217, 36218 x 2, right?

Question ID : 5042
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