CPT Knowledgebase - Feb 21, 2017

A new type of intravascular inferior vena cava (IVC) filter has been approved by the FDA. Known as a convertible filter, the filter is inserted like other IVC filters, but then once the clinical need is no longer present, the filter can be converted by a physician snaring and removing a restraining cap, thereby converting the filter to an open, non-filtering configuration, leaving much of the device in the inferior vena cava. How would this procedure be coded? Specifically, is the conversion of the filter to a non-filtering device a separate procedure?

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