tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 9

Vascular Surgery: Decode Intravascular Stent Coding Restrictions

Follow CCI changes that tell the tale.  When your general surgeon places an intravascular stent using a transcatheter approach for both an artery and a vein on the same day, you’ll have some explaining to do. That’s because Medicare’s Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) has left a trail of added and deleted edit pairs that restrict and guide the way you can report the following codes: 37236 — Transcatheter placement of an intravascular stent(s) (except lower extremity arteries for occlusive disease, cervical carotid, extracranial vertebral or intrathoracic carotid, intracranial, or coronary), open or percutaneous, including radiological...

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