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CPT 37249 - MUE x 2 - Per Extremity?

Date: Jul 27, 2017

Question:

"Patient with DVT right-sided common femoral vein, popliteal vein, common iliac vein, and left-sided common femoral vein and common iliac vein. Placement of 50 cm lysis catheter in vena cava via left-sided popliteal and right-sided popliteal posterior approach (37212, 36010-50). Balloon angioplasty of IVC (37248). Balloon angioplasty right-sided common iliac vein, external iliac vein, common femoral vein. Balloon angioplasty left-sided common femoral vein, common iliac vein." Would we submit code 37249 x 2 per extremity? 

Question ID : 9559
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