News Alert: ICD-11 Codes Released by WHO
Chuck Buck
June 19, 2018
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Can we charge for two kissing balloons when one is for a lesion and one is for protection of a stent but no lesion? The internal iliac had a lesion, and the external iliac had a stent that needed protection. Would the codes be 37220 and 37222?
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