tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2018 Issue 2
You Be the Coder: Beware All-Encompassing Endograft Codes
Question: For a patient with an infrarenal aorta aneurysm that had not ruptured, our surgeon used an aortic tube endograft to repair the vessel. The procedure involved additional stenting in the right renal artery. How should we code this case? Nebraska Subscriber Answer: You should code the case using new code 34701 (Endovascular repair of infrarenal aorta by deployment of an aorto-aortic tube endograft including pre-procedure sizing and device selection, all nonselective catheterization(s), all associated radiological supervision and interpretation, all endograft extension(s) placed in the aorta from the level of the renal arteries to the aortic bifurcation, and all...
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