Please note this question was answered in 2014. The coding advice may or may not be outdated.
AV Fistula Arterial Angioplasty with Venous Stent
Date: Jun 18, 2014
Question:
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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