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Right Heart Catheterization with Biopsy

Date: Mar 3, 2014

Question:

At our facility, the interventional cardiologist routinely performs a diagnostic right heart catheterization with transplant heart biopsy. He documents cardiac output, wedge positioning, etc. What would constitute medically necessary for a diagnostic right heart catheterization when evaluating a transplanted heart and performing a heart biopsy?

Question ID : 5440
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