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Wiki Coding for Pacemaker Pocket Revision

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My provider did a revision for a permanent pacemaker pocket. The patient's pacemaker moved into an uncomfortable position, so they had to relocate it to a different site. Everything I am reading tells me that this is included in other codes, but I am not sure what to use since that is all that was performed.

Can anyone help me properly this?

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I should have asked you if this is within the global limit of the original placement of the pacemaker? What other codes were you looking at? More details would be needed to clarify what you specifically needed help with.
 
Thank you. That is very helpful.

The patient's pacemaker was originally inserted in 2007, with the latest pulse generator change on 3/8/17. The provider also did a device programming/evaluation (93280) on 7/19/17 - exactly 1 week before the pocket revision. When I look up that code, it doesn't show any global days, so am I correct in thinking that I can still bill the 33222?
 
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