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Subclavian Brachial Artery Bypass Graft

Date: Jul 29, 2014

Question:

My doctor was treating a patient in a motorcycle accident. He had a traumatic injury to the right subclavian artery with loss of blood flow to the right arm. Due to the extent of injury to the subclavian artery, he decided to do a subclavian-brachial bypass with graft. I’m not coming up with any CPT code to describe this based on the distal portion of the bypass being the brachial artery and the use of the graft instead of a vein. Should I use the unlisted code?

Question ID : 5862
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