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AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1989 First Quarter
Notice
In the December 8, 1988, booklet for The Fifth Teleconference on Coding for ICD-9-CM, page 15, a printing format error was made under the title Bypass Grafts. The last three lines should appear as follows:
Aorto-femoral bypass 39.25 Revision of bypass 39.49 Declotting of bypass graft 39.49
Code 39.49, Other revision of vascular procedure, excludes the coronary arteries. When a repeat coronary artery bypass is performed, assign the appropriate code(s) from the 36.1 category, Bypass anastomosing for heart revascularization.
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