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Does Stent Placement Matter for Angioplasty Code?

Published on Tue Sep 02, 2025

Question: A patient was taken emergently to the cardiac catheterization lab due to an acute myocardial infarction (MI). The physician performed a balloon angioplasty only; no stent was placed because the occlusion was located in a very distal, codominant circumflex artery. The physician described this as a microinfarction and documented that the vessel was not suitable for stent implantation. The angioplasty [...]
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