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Rescue Thrombectomy with Atherectomy

Date: May 13, 2014

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I have a question regarding Q&A 4409. Are you saying if a rescue thrombectomy is performed in the popliteal, and an atherectomy is performed in the SFA (both with the same device) that you only code one procedure? Is the reference you are using from the NCCI Policy #18? Is there another reference? There is no NCCI edit and 37186 is not in the Policy, specifically.

Question ID : 5650
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