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Catheter Placements
Date: Jul 27, 2014
Question:
Hi Dr. Z, I'm a PB Coder for several Cardiologist MDs who have started seeing patients now to do peripheral interventional type of cases. They need help in their documention to explain their catheter placements, repositioning, etc. for proper assignment of codes. The start out explaining their access site but then go into the findings of the cases. Do you have any recommendations that provide detailed information that they can use as a teaching tool for both MDs and Coders to use? I know they are doing a lot of work but they are not seeing the proper reimbursement for it. Thanks!
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