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Aspiration Thrombectomy Coronary Branches

Date: Mar 7, 2014

Question:

Patient had a stent intervention in the right coronary and then aspiration thrombectomy in the PDA. Should the unlisted code be assigned for the aspiration thrombectomy, and if so, do we use a modifier for this?

Question ID : 5466
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