Wiki Evacuation of Hematoma

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Can anyone help with coding for an evacuation of a hematoma in a pacemaker pocket? The patient had a pacemaker implant and on the same day was found to have a hematoma in the pocket. The pocket was opened up and the hematoma evacuated. Would this be included in the global of the pacemaker implant or is this billable and how would it be coded? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank!!

Lisa
 
Lisa, was the pacemaker revised or relocated? If he created a new pocket after draining the hematoma and implanted the pace in the new pocket we assign 33222.
But if it was an evacuation of the hematoma from the same pocket the pace was implanted in and then pace is placed back in the same pocket we code 10140.
 
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