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Defuse Your Intracranial Balloon Angioplasty Coding Stress

Published on Wed Jul 03, 2013

Hint: Confirm stenting, do not additionally report inclusive services. You’ll be well on your way to increasing your percutaneous intracranial angioplasty coding accuracy if you identify the number and location for ballooning and confirm whether your surgeon placed any stents.  When your surgeon performs a percutaneous intracranial angioplasty, you’ll report code 61630 (Balloon angioplasty, intracranial [e.g., atherosclerotic stenosis], percutaneous). Take [...]
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