AMA CPT® Assistant - 1994 Issue 3 (March)

Pacemaker Removal and Replacement (Fall 1994)

Fall 1994 page 24-end Coding Clarification Pacemaker Removal and Replacement The article entitled "Electrophysiologic Testing and Pacemaker Services" in the Summer 1994 CPT Assistant described pacemaker removal and replacement. The intent of that portion of the article was to indicate to code for both the insertion of a pacemaker system and the removal of a pacemaker system if an entirely new system replaced the entire system being removed. (ie, Two codes are reported; one for the removal of the entire old system and one code for the insertion of an entire new system.) However, if the entire old...

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