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35656

Date: Dec 31, 2014

Question:

Patient has a left to right femoral-femoral bypass with a PTFE graft. Using the same graft, the physician does a left femoral-popliteal bypass graft. Can I use both codes 35656 and 35661, as two bypasses were done but only one PTFE graft used?

Question ID : 6314
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