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Acute MI

Date: Oct 14, 2015

Question:

Patient came in with acute myocardial infarction, and the physician performed aspiration thrombectomy to the LC and RC, and then the patient coded and expired. Would you report code 92941 for this where aspiration thrombectomy was the only procedure performed?

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