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We would like to express our thanks
to the very attentive coders
at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center in Sioux City, IA,
for pointing out an Ooops! to us.

In this month's Coding Recommendations for the Real Operative Report, we had made a type-o on one of the codes and ended up with the correct code description, but an incorrect numerical code:

The code narrative "Bypass graft, with vein, femorial-anterior tibial, posterior tibial, peroneal artery or other distal vessel" does not describe code 35571, as we had published, but rather code 35566, which is indeed our suggestion for corrrect code assignment.

Once again: our thanks to you coders at St. Luke's for pointing the error out to us! Your feedback is very much appreciated.

 

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