Wiki 34900 Code Clarification

[cargo]

34900 code description reads endovascular repair of iliac artery using ilio-iliac tube endoprosthesis. Can someone define 'ilio-iliac tube' for me please?! I have an endovascular repair of a ruptured iliac artery aneurysm (at iliac anastomosis of old AAA aortobi-iliac artery repair), using an iliac stent. Does this stent = an ilio-iliac tube?

Thanks,
Carol Wright, CPC

 

[AlaskanCoder]

My understanding is that this would be a stent, in an ilio-iliac repair however, there is no aortic involvement.

 

[tser05@yahoo.co.in]

As per my understanding and description in CPT book the Stent should be coded seprately and hence the ilio-iliac tube is endoprosthesis not a stent.

Dawa, CPC
Sr. Medical Coder.

 

[TWinsor]

the stent if deployed in the same area is included in the 34900.

HTH!