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2016 Update:

Update Your Practice For These New Codes For Intracranial Arterial Therapeutic Interventions

Published on Mon Mar 21, 2016

Distinguish thrombolysis and vasodilation, know services that the new codes include. In 2016, the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) introduced three new codes for reporting intracranial arterial procedures: 61645, Percutaneous arterial transluminal mechanical thrombectomy and/or infusion for thrombolysis, intracranial, any method, including diagnostic angiography, fluoroscopic guidance, catheter placement, and intraprocedural pharmacological thrombolytic injection(s) 61650, Endovascular intracranial prolonged administration of pharmacologic agent(s) [...]
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