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Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

Date: Mar 27, 2014

Question:

How would you code the following? "Patient had a right and retrograde left heart catheterization with transseptal puncture, left atrial angiography, selective left pulmonary vein angiography, and selective right inferior and right superior pulmonary vein angiography. Patient found to have stenosis, and then left common pulmonary vein was stented, and the right inferior pulmonary vein was angioplastied." I came up with the following codes: 93460, 93462, 92997, and 37238.  What are your thoughts?

Question ID : 5537
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