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Carotid stenting.

Jackie Miller
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Coding personnel should be aware of the new CPT guidelines for reporting carotid and vertebral stent placement. Payors' billing requirements for these procedures vary, and it is important to determine before billing whether the payor will accept the applicable CPT category I or III code or whether an unlisted code must be reported. Coding guidancefor these procedures will likely continue to evolve in thenear future.

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Jackie Miller. 2005. Carotid stenting.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16171221/

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