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AV Fistula Arterial Angioplasty with Venous Stent

Date: Jun 18, 2014

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I was just wondering what the coding protocol would be when we angioplasty the arterial anastomosis and place a stent in the graft venous outflow. Would one procedure override the other, as arterial angioplasty would be coded instead of venous angioplasty, but since stenting now includes any angioplasty does it matter that it's arterial anastomosis angioplasty?

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