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Billing for ICDs? Brush up on These 6 Covered Patient Indications

Published on Wed Jan 23, 2019

Hint: For all patient indications, the patient must be clinically stable. Your cardiologist replaces an existing single chamber implantable defibrillator pulse generator with a new dual chamber defibrillator, new RV lead, and existing RA lead for a Medicare patient. It seems like this should be a fairly straightforward service to report, so you submit 33241and 33249 on your claim. But, [...]
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