The provider inserts a catheter through the skin (percutaneous approach) and guides it into the heart's arteries. They deploy one or more stents (small tubes) to keep the artery open and may expand a balloon to open the narrowed artery . This code applies to treatment in a single major coronary artery and/or one or more of its branches for a single lesion involving one or more coronary segments.
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