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US Guided Venoplasty of Shunt

Date: Apr 2, 2015

Question:

How would you code catheter placement in a dialysis fistula, when doing venous angioplasty, if the patient only had ultrasound-guided PTA, without injection of contrast? At your conference, I thought I heard you state that code 36147 requires contrast injection. Code 36005 is for venography, and code 36010 does not work (neither does 36011). Am I limited to unlisted code 37799?

Question ID : 6540
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