tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2008 Issue 8

Vascular Family Matters for Catheter Coding

Not every vessel the surgeon crosses deserves a code Vascular coding basics tell you not to report nonselective catheter placement with selective placement from the same access site. But what if the surgeon positions the catheter in multiple vascular families from the same access site? Our experts have outlined what you should (and shouldn-t) do when coding these tricky procedures. Use 2 Codes for Additional Second-, Third-Order Branches You should code separately each vascular family the surgeon accesses separately, first determining the highest-order branch the physician accesses in each family, says Sheri Bernard, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-P, AAPC vice president...

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