Occlusion and stenosis of bilateral carotid arteries. I65.23 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2019 edition of ICD-10-CM I65.23 became effective on October 1, 2018.
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code I66.23 [convert to ICD-9-CM] Occlusion and stenosis of bilateral posterior cerebral arteries. Occlusion and stenosis of bi posterior cerebral arteries; Bilateral posterior cerebral artery occlusion; Bilateral posterior cerebral artery occlusions. ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code I66.23.
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ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code I63.219 [convert to ICD-9-CM] Cerebral infarction due to unspecified occlusion or stenosis of unspecified vertebral artery. Cereb infrc due to unsp occls or stenosis …
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Atherosclerosis of native arteries of right leg with ulceration of unspecified site
Atherosclerosis of native arteries of right leg with ulceration of heel and midfoot
Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with intermittent claudication, other extremity
Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with diabetic peripheral angiopathy with gangrene
Atherosclerosis of native arteries of right leg with ulceration of thigh
Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic peripheral angiopathy with gangrene
Atherosclerosis of native arteries of extremities with gangrene, right leg
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Indeed, a pain that appears during walking and involves the lower back, hip, buttock, or thigh suggests either proximal claudication or proximal pseudoclaudication (2). Claudication is a vasculogenic pain whereas pseudoclaudication results from diseases such as lumbar spinal stenosis, hip osteoarthritis, venous congestion, or bone metastasis, sciatica, and so on (7–9) (Figure (Figure1;1; Table Table11).
Lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD) is a highly prevalent disease affecting 202 million people worldwide. Internal iliac artery stenosis (IIAS) is one of the localization of LEAD. This diagnosis is often neglected when a patient has a proximal walking pain since most physicians evoke a pseudoclaudication. Surprisingly, IIAS management is reported neither in the Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus II nor in the report of the American College Foundation/American Heart Association guidelines. The aims of this review are to present the current knowledge about the disease, how should it be managed in 2015 and what are the future research trends.
The main symptom is the lower back, hip, buttock, or thigh claudication defining the proximal claudication, a fatigue, discomfort, or pain occurring in specific muscle groups alimenting by IIA during effort due to exercise-induced ischemia and which is relieved with rest (2, 6). However, the presentation of proximal claudication is often atypical and may mimic other non-vascular diseases that may induce misleading diagnoses (5, 9) (Figure (Figure1).1). Moreover, the pain may appear at rest when IIAS is severe, and can lead even to gluteal necrosis (17). Finally, IIAS induces different functional impairments: walking impairment that leads to work disability, and sexual impairment as erectile dysfunction (16, 18). These two impairments reduce the patient quality of life (19–21). To avoid these impairments, although it is challenging with conventional non-invasive tests, it is of interest to diagnose the disease in order to diminish the delay of diagnosis, which is currently of 2 years, when the disease is not associated with distal LEAD (14).
The most used are the World Health Organization (WHO)/Rose Questionnaire, the Edinburgh claudication questionnaire , and the San Diego questionnaire (22, 26, 27) [Readers will find these entire questionnaires in the same article published in Vascular Medicine (28)].
Penile-brachial index (PBI), defined as penile pressure over the highest systolic brachial ratio, is rarely used in routine investigations, and its accuracy is 69.3% (95% confidence interval: 58.6–78.7) for the detection of an arterial stenosis or occlusion on at least one side as compared with the arteriograms (30). Therefore, a normal PBI (>0.60) cannot rule out the presence of lesions on the internal iliac arteries (30).
Thus, LEAD risk factors are well identified: non-modifiable risk factors such as age, gender, and heredity; and modifiable risk factors such as smoking, ...
Incidence and prevalence of IIAS have not been established in general population. Although isolated IIAS is probably rare, IIAS is often associated with common iliac artery stenosis.
For the procedure, the left common femoral arter y was percutaneously entered and a catheter was placed in the aorta (CPT 36200), and contrast was injected for the aortogram. The catheter was then cannulated in the left common iliac and a left lower extremity angiogram was performed (remove CPT 36200 and add CPT 36245-LT). The angiogram showed a 60 percent stenosis in the SFA. The catheter was then changed and parked in the superficial femoral artery (remove CPT 36245-LT and add CPT 36247-LT) contrast was injected, and a subsequent angiogram showed 85 percent stenosis in the anterior tibial artery.
The one CPT to be reported is CPT 37227-LT (Revascularization, endovascular, open or percutaenous, femoral/popliteal artery (s), unilateral with transluminal stent placement (s) and athrectomy, includes angioplasty within the same vessel; when performed).
Let’s start with iliacs. Revascularization in the iliacs has five CPT codes: two primary/base codes (37220/37221) , two add-on codes, (+37222/+37233), and 0238T. For this example, documentation reflects the patient had a percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) in the left internal iliac and a PTA with stent placement in the ipsilateral external iliac. A coding professional would code CPT 37221-LT (Revascularilization, endovascular, open or percutaneous, iliac artery, unilateral, initial vessel, with transcatheter stent placement, includes angioplasty within same vessel; when performed) followed by +37222-LT (Revascularization, endovascular, open or percutatneous, iliac artery, each additional ipsilateral iliac vessel; with transluminal angioplasty) (List separately in addition to coding for primary procedure).
When there is an athrectomy and angioplasty in the internal iliac artery, code 37220 and 0238T; for athrectomy with stent insertion in the ipsilateral external iliac artery, code +37223 and 0238T.
Consider this example: Documentation shows a selective catheter placement in the left common iliac (CPT 36245), a first order selective catheter placement, followed by selective catheter placement in the left common femoral artery (CPT 36246), a second order catheter placement. Following the guidance above, code to the highest catheter order placement. Since CPT 36246 is second order and 36245 is a first order, CPT 36245 is bundled in with 36246, so a coding professional would report 36246-LT.
There are three orders for selective catheter placements: first, second, and third order (CPT 36245, 36246, 36247, and sometimes 36248). When the documentation states the catheter went into a 3rd order vascular family (CPT 36247), any non-selective codes (36200), first order (36245), and second order (36246) are bundled in with CPT 36247 on the ipsilateral side (same side as catheter placement).
The lower extremity has three territories. The first is the iliac, consisting of the common, internal, and external iliac arteries. The second is the femoral/popliteal (fem/pop), which has the common femoral, profunda femoral, superficial femoral, and popliteal arteries. The third territory is the tibia/peroneal, which includes the anterior tibia, ...