General Surgery Coding Alert

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 [...]
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