Letter/Communication
Reply [to: Factors Affecting Outcome of Carotid Artery Stenting]
The American journal of cardiology, Vol.114(9), p.1464
11/01/2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2014.08.003
PMID: 25201213
Abstract
After excluding these symptomatic patients, any subsequent strokes were coded using ICD-9-CM code 997.X or 438.XX. [...]it has been previously noted that strict neurologic evaluation requirements for Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reimbursement are likely to result in more accurate identification of preprocedural symptomatic status.6 Supplementary Table 1 highlighted in the letter by Dr. Agarwal solely refers to the ICD codes used in calculating the Charlson co-morbidity index and not those used for classifying clinical status of patients with carotid artery stenosis in our study.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reply [to: Factors Affecting Outcome of Carotid Artery Stenting]
- Creators
- Apurva BadhekaAnkit ChothaniSidakpal Panaich - University of Iowa, Internal MedicineNileshkumar J PatelNilay PatelShilpkumar AroraAbhishek Deshmukh
- Resource Type
- Letter/Communication
- Publication Details
- The American journal of cardiology, Vol.114(9), p.1464
- Publisher
- Elsevier Limited
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.amjcard.2014.08.003
- PMID
- 25201213
- ISSN
- 0002-9149
- eISSN
- 1879-1913
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Cardiovascular Medicine; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094318902771
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