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Deletion of Code 37201

Date: Feb 12, 2014

Question:

I have two questions on the following case. The physician performed imaging of the cervical carotid and cerebral imaging from a cervical carotid catheter position. He then advanced the catheter into the MCA (no imaging) and initiated tPA infusion over a period of 2.5 hrs. Since we no longer have code 37201, would this infusion be reported with code 37799? And since there was no imaging of the MCA, would you report the highest catheterization (code 36224)?

Question ID : 5385
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