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Don’t Miss This Key Rule on Vascular Families in Cath Coding

Published on Fri Jul 11, 2025

Question: If a cardiologist performs catheterizations of the right vertebral artery (third order) and left vertebral artery (second order) from femoral access, can I just report the third-order catheterization code? Does it include the second-order work? Tennessee Subscriber Answer: No, you should not bundle the second-order catheterization into the third-order code in this case. That’s because the right and left vertebral arteries belong to different vascular families. In [...]
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