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Cath placements with venous stent placement

Date: Aug 1, 2017

Question:

The physician accessed the right and left common femoral veins and performed angioplasty in the right and left common iliac vein and the left external iliac. We reported codes 37248 and 37249 x 2. Would you also report codes 36005 x 2 or 36000 x 2?

Question ID : 9118
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