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Endarterectomy with Open Bypass Surgery

Date: Sep 11, 2014

Question:

The physician performed left common femoral endarterectomy (35371), left axillary artery to common femoral artery extra-anatomic bypass (35621), and left femoral to below-knee popliteal artery bypass (35656). I run the NCCI edits, and all codes can be billed together. However, my confusion comes with your coding tips that when a new bypass is performed the inflow/outflow includes thrombectomy and endarterectomy related to the bypass. So, can I bill these three codes together?

Question ID : 6019
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