CPT Knowledgebase - Oct 18, 2013

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 this second scenario, a diagnostic angiogram performed from the main trunk suggests a problem in the lower pole, but it is unable to be confirmed so additional branches are subselected to identify the exact point of bleeding. In this scenario, would the diagnostic study be reported with code 36253 with no additional catheter code for the intervention?

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