AMA CPT® Assistant - 2007 Issue 1 (January)
Arteries and Veins (January 2007)
January 2007 pages 7-10 Coding Communication:Arteries and Veins The Cardiovascular system of Surgery in the CPT codebook has undergone numerous changes to the Arteries and Veins subsection with the revision of five code descriptors, the deletion of five codes, and the addition of 14 new codes. This article will highlight these specific changes. Thromboendarterectomy The following code was revised to update the older wording "with or without patch graft" to reflect the new wording "including patch graft, if performed:" 35301Thromboendarterectomy, including patch graft, if performed; carotid, vertebral, subclavian, by neck incision Five codes were added to describe more granularly...
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