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Endarterectomy Procedures

Date: May 6, 2014

Question:

If a patient has endarterectomies performed in the common femoral, profunda femoral, and superficial femoral, can all three be coded? Do the territory rules apply for the PTA/stent/atherectomy rules to the endarterectomy procedures (35301-35372), which only allow one intervention in the fem/pop region?

Question ID : 5662
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