AMA CPT® Assistant - 2014 Issue 3 (March)

Coding Update: Transcatheter Placement of Intravascular Stents (37215-37217) (March 2014)

March 2014 pages 8-9 Coding Update: Transcatheter Placement of Intravascular Stents (37215-37217) In the article "Transcatheter Procedures" published in the February 2013 issue of CPT® Assistant, code 37215, Transcatheter placement of intravascular stent(s), cervical carotid artery, percutaneous; with distal embolic protection, and code 37216, Transcatheter placement of intravascular stent(s), cervical carotid artery, percutaneous; without distal embolic protection, which are codes used to report percutaneous stent placement in the cervical portion of the extracranial carotid artery, were discussed along with other transcatheter procedures. For the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) 2014 code set, further refinements were made to the Transcatheter...

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