AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1994 Fourth Quarter

Coronary & Peripheral Artery Disease, Native versus Graft Vessels

New codes have been created that will now allow for a distinction between a disease process which occurs to a native body part and to a bypass graft. This change affects codes for atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries as well as the peripheral arteries. Prior to the creation of these codes, code 996.03, Mechanical complication of cardiac device, implant, and graft, Due to coronary bypass graft, was assigned to indicate a reocclusion of a graft, both acute and delayed graft closure (see Coding Clinic, First Quarter 1994 page 5). These codes are vessel-specific and should be assigned when...

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