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Untangle Your Trickiest Mechanical Thrombectomy Claims

Published on Wed Mar 27, 2024

Hint: Never report +37185 alone on a claim. When your physician removes a blood clot (thrombus) from a vessel to help restore circulation, you must navigate numerous codes to accurately report the mechanical thrombectomy procedure. You also must identify whether the physician performed arterial or venous mechanical thrombectomy. Read on to learn more. Turn to 37184 for Primary Arterial Mechanical [...]
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