Coding Clinic, First Quarter 1999, p. 7, advised the assignment of code 38.29, Other diagnostic procedures on blood vessels, for balloon tip occlusion of the left carotid. However when "occlusion of artery, carotid" is referenced in the Index, code 38.82, Other surgical occlusion of vessels, appears to be the appropriate code. What is the correct code for balloon tip occlusion of the carotid artery?
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