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Lower Extremity Venous Thrombectomy

Date: Jun 2, 2015

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"The 8 French sheath was exchanged for a 9 French curved Flexor sheath over the Amplatz wire. The 2.5 mm Turbo-Elite laser was advanced coaxially (calibrated per protocol) and activity to perform laser thrombectomy within the iliac stents. A Lunderquist wire was advanced through the laser catheter until tip to tip. This was then shaped within the laser catheter to allow for better torque-ability, control, and improved thrombectomy." The above info is for a common/external iliac veins. There were two distict catheters involved, one from the RIJ the other from the LFV, for the tip to tip. In the 2015 book, code 37187 can be reported twice if two vascular distributions are involved with two separate treatment caths. Would the above scenario constitute coding 37187 twice?

Question ID : 6529
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