Please note this question was answered in 2014. The coding advice may or may not be outdated.
Thoracic Aorta Repair with Partial Coverage of Left Subclavian Artery
Date: Jan 14, 2014
Question:
If the physician documents "we would have to partially cover the subclavian artery" and in the summary states "all head vessels were patent", and there is no documentation of a carotid-subclavian bypass, would you report code 33880 or 33881?
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