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Henry Jacobs: Question whether many of these codes will indeed work. Perhaps for isolated instances where Medicare or health insurance is not checking up, but they were not really intended for CCSVI diagnosis or treatment.
For example diagnosis code 45981 has traditionally been used for venous peripheral insufficiency such as leg or arm, not central venous insufficiency (which is what is referred to in CCSVI).
Also, venous ultrasound code 93970 is for a scan of extremity veins, not internal jugular or vertebral which again are central veins and not extremity veins.
Several of the other codes are also mismatched – some referring to arteries, extremities, or other areas or other procedures.
Just one question. When we speak about the nervous system, the central system are the brain and the spine, but when we speak about the vascular system, does it really exist a "vascular central system"? shouldn't this expression refer to the heart instead of the brain? Brain is not central from the vascular point of view.
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