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General Surgery Coding Alert

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Learn Catheter Placement Basics

Published on Tue Mar 17, 2020

Question: We have a new surgeon in our practice who specializes in vascular surgery, and I need some help coding for these procedures. If the surgeon introduces a catheter into the common femoral artery and advances it to the aorta for an abdominal aortogram before removing the catheter, how should I code the procedure? California Subscriber Answer: The correct code [...]
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