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Rely on These Codes for Removal of Leads

Published on Tue Jun 23, 2015

Question: A Medicare patient wants us to remove his SCS leads and battery because the system that he has is not eliminating his pain. Our physician tried to implant two new leads to see if it would help the pain, but after several attempts, he could not implant and wanted to avoid damage. He then removed the two new leads, the [...]
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