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Date: Mar 12, 2024
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We have a surgeon who places right femoral trialysis catheters, but he does not confirm where the tip of the catheter terminates. When I asked him he said post-op placement imaging for femoral catheters is not needed; he said there is no way to definitively confirm catheter placement in the iliac vein on plain film without cross-sectional imaging like a CT/MRI. In these cases do we report code 36556-52?
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