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37197 Steps in to Replace Retrieval Codes 37203 and 75961

Published on Mon Dec 03, 2012

The all-in-one code club gets yet another member in 2013. Toss out your old intravascular foreign body removal codes for 2013. Effective January 1, CPT® adds a new combo platter code to replace the separate surgical and radiological codes you used in 2012. The added code is 37197 (Transcatheter retrieval, percutaneous, of intravascular foreign body [e.g., fractured venous or arterial catheter], includes radiological supervision and interpretation, and imaging guidance [ultrasound or fluoroscopy], when performed). Code 37197 replaces these two deleted-in-2013 codes: 37203, Transcatheter retrieval, percutaneous, of intravascular foreign body (e.g., fractured venous or arterial catheter) 75961, Transcatheter retrieval, percutaneous, of intravascular foreign body (e.g., fractured venous or arterial catheter), radiological supervision and interpretation.
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