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36010 with Open Thrombectomy

Date: Mar 18, 2015

Question:

In the 2015 Vascular & Endovascular Surgery Coding Reference, page 384, example #2, you included code 36010. Can you explain why? I didn't know you could bill a catheter placement during open procedures.

Question ID : 6493
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