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Paravalvular Leak Treatment

Date: Oct 2, 2014

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In your "Ask Dr. Z" knowledge base forum, you previously recommended the use of unlisted code 93799 for percutaneous treatment of a paravalvular leak instead of code 37242. Would you please elaborate on why this is the case? I am assuming that since code 37241 is for venous embolization and 37242 is for arterial embolization you would not be able to use these codes, as a paravalvular leak treatment is used to treat a valve. The reps have also pointed us to the embolization codes (37241-37244), but I am reluctant to bill these out for treatment of a paravalvular leak. I am hoping you can shed some light on this relatively new procedure.

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