CPT Knowledgebase - Jun 16, 2015

A diagnostic angiogram is performed at the same setting as an intervention for acute bleeding from the kidney, and then a distal branch is embolized. In the first scenario, a diagnostic angiogram from the main trunk selection shows the pathology, and then a third-order branch is subselected for embolization. Is it appropriate to report code 36251 for the diagnostic evaluation and code 36247 (REVISED IN 2012) for the therapeutic procedure? Or should code 36253 only be reported for the entire procedure?

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