tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2020 Issue Q3

Vascular Surgery: 4 Tips Focus Infrarenal Aorta Endograft Coding

Distinguish cases involving rupture. When your surgeon performs an endograft procedure in the abdominal infrarenal aorta, you face a plethora of coding pitfalls. Follow our experts’ tips to avoid the snags posed by multiple code choices, specific CPT® guidelines, and your surgeon’s documentation. Tip 1: Focus on Code Family You will turn to codes 34701-34706 (Endovascular repair of infrarenal aorta … by deployment of an … endograft …) when your surgeon uses an endograft to treat an abdominal aortic pathology in the infrarenal abdominal aorta, with or without rupture. The treated pathologies addressed by these codes include...

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