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Intra-Arterial Aortic Sac Pressure

Date: Jul 1, 2014

Question:

Patient has a history of ELG with a type 2 endoleak (not global). During an open embolization of the aortic sac and ligation of IMA, the physician inserted a sheath into the aortic sac and obtained intra-arterial pressures. Is that a separate billable service? If yes, what code(s) would I be able to use? We currently have code 37244 for the embolization and code 35221 for the ligation of the IMA.

Question ID : 5819
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