AMA CPT® Assistant - 2017 Issue 2 (February)
Surgery: Cardiovascular System (Q&A) (February 2017)
February 2017 page 14a Surgery: Cardiovascular System Question: A new type of intravascular inferior vena cava (IVC) filter has been approved by the FDA. Known as a "convertible filter," the filter is inserted like other IVC filters, but then once the clinical need is no longer present, the filter can be "converted" by a physician snaring and removing a restraining cap, thereby converting the filter to an open, non-filtering configuration, leaving much of the device in the inferior vena cava. How would this procedure be coded? Specifically, is the conversion of the filter to a non-filtering device a...
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