Please note this question was answered in 2014. The coding advice may or may not be outdated.
Repeat Stent Separate Session
Date: Dec 22, 2014
Question:
I would appreciate you help with this scenario. We did a drug-eluting stent procedure on the LAD (C9600-LD). Later in the day, this patient developed pain and returned to the cath lab. The diagonal was closing down, and the same physician put a drug-eluting stent in the diagonal. For the second encounter, would I report code C9600-76-LD, or would I report code C9601-LD?
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