AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1999 Second Quarter

Ask the editor

The patient is a 60-year-old male status post right carotid endarterectomy 16 months ago, who presents to the hospital with recurrent right carotid artery stenosis. The patient was taken to the operating room and the surgeon performed a redo right carotid endarterectomy with replacement of the proximal internal carotid artery with interposition reversed saphenous vein graft from the right groin and vein patch angioplasty of the interposition vein graft. Would the redo of the endarterectomy be considered a revision of a vascular procedure (code 39.49)? If not, what is the most appropriate code(s) assignment for this procedure? ...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS .


  • The official AHA publication for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS coding guidelines and advice
  • Current newsletters added each quarter
  • Full Archives - over 3100 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 1984 organized by year and issue
  • Includes ICD-10-CM/PCS Articles since 2013
  • Fully searchable through Find-A-Code's Comprehensive Search
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
  • View all the articles associated with any code, right from the code page!
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • AHA's Coding Clinic® - ICD-10-CM/PCS +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.