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Reporting 33215 and 33226 Together

Date: Dec 31, 2014

Question:

I researched prior questions along with your cardiovascular coding book and could not locate an answer to my question. Patient has a biventricular ICD in which the left ventricular lead is repositioned in the anterior cardiac vein, the dislodged right atrial lead is repositioned, and adequate slack was added to the right ventricular coil. I want to report this with code 33215 along with 33226, but I am encountering an NCCI edit. Please advise.

Question ID : 6315
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