Our facility is looking in to doing a couple of procedures with spectranetics lasers. One is using the laser in peripheral and the other is using it to help with the removal of ppm or icd leads. I understand where the peripheral would be the athrectomy charge but haven't had any sucess in finding a cpt code or otherwise to use for the removal of ppm or icd leads via laser. Has anyone else done this and if so what code do you use?
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Wiki laser lead removal
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Margaret Morgan
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There is no lazer CPT code for lead removals. I bill the lead removal codes (33234 or 33235 for pacemaker and 33244 for ICD) with a 22 modifier for the extra work my physicians does.
