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92941 Clarification

Date: Apr 14, 2016

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Does the following documentation/example support the use of code 92941? Indications listed in the procedure note include known history of CAD, status post prior stenting of LC, typical chest pain, EKG suggestive of inferior wall ischemia, and cardiac enzymes that became positive. Because of her increase in enzymes and her acute EKG change, she was taken emergently to cardiac catheterization laboratory. Findings consist of 70% hazy lesion of the LC as the culprit lesion and is type A or low risk. Procedure performed was angioplasty of the circumflex artery. 

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