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Wiki Atherectomy vs Angioplasty

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I have an operative note that indicates an atherectomy was performed to complete a pilot channel through a 90% napkin-ring lesion to facilitate a balloon angioplasty. Would you code this as an angioplasty or atherectomy?
 
laschneider said:
I have an operative note that indicates an atherectomy was performed to complete a pilot channel through a 90% napkin-ring lesion to facilitate a balloon angioplasty. Would you code this as an angioplasty or atherectomy?
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Yoy should code the angioplasty. I verified this in a medical dictionary and the artherectomy is considered part of the angioplasty.
 
nmkeirn said:
Yoy should code the angioplasty. I verified this in a medical dictionary and the artherectomy is considered part of the angioplasty.
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If you go back to a question that I submitted a few weeks ago, I was told from someone who went to a Dr.Z's seminar that you bill for the atherectomy, and not the angioplasty. The question is on pg 2 on this site.

Have a good day!,
Jim Pawloski, CIRCC
National Healthcare Review
 
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