Cardiology Question for the Week of August 25, 2025
Under what conditions should we not report 93566? Are there specific codes that cannot be reported with it?
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Under what conditions should we not report 93566? Are there specific codes that cannot be reported with it?
How would you code for the following in a hospital setting? An interventional cardiologist places three drug-eluting stents, one in the left circumflex and another in the obtuse marginal branch. A third DES stent is deployed within the left
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