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Cancelled Ablation

Date: Dec 27, 2022

Question:

Patient's PVC ablation was cancelled after infusion of epi and caffeine-sodium benzoate failed to induce a high enough burden of PVCs. Can we charge for the infusions? Epi was 31 minutes, and caffeine was 23 minutes. Patient was under anesthesia for nearly two hours. Only other service was the EKG. Procedure note says pharmacological stimulation study to induce PVCs.

Question ID : 18159
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