AMA CPT® Assistant - 2013 Issue 12 (December)

Fenestrated Endovascular Repair of the Visceral and Infrarenal Aorta (FEVAR) (December 2013)

December 2013 pages 8-9 Fenestrated Endovascular Repair of the Visceral and Infrarenal Aorta (FEVAR) A new subsection titled Fenestrated Endovascular Repair of the Visceral and Infrarenal Aorta (FEVAR) was added after Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in the Surgery/Cardiovascular section of the 2014 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®)code set. This article is an introduction to the new FEVAR guidelines, parenthetical notes, and the eight new Category I CPT codes created to replace the Category III codes (0078T-0081T) previously used to report FEVAR services. Since endovascular treatment of the abdominal aorta requires a normal segment of artery above and...

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