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Creation of Brachiocephalic Fistula with Patch Repair due to No Pulse in Fistula

Date: Jul 6, 2016

Question:

If a surgeon creates a fistula (32821) and there is no pulse, and he therefore does a revision and repairs it with a harvested vein and does vein patching, can you code the revision as well (36832), even though both codes are separate procedures?

Question ID : 8110
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