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Removal of Temporary Pacemaker

Date: Aug 12, 2014

Question:

I was reviewing another coder's case, and they coded the removal of the temporary pacemaker. The situation is the patient comes in the ER during the night with symptomatic bradycardia and the on-call cardiologist puts in a temporary pacemaker (33210). The next day the implant physician places a dual chamber pacemaker and removes the temporary pacemaker. She is reporting codes 33208 and 33234. Is this correct?

Question ID : 5936
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