A physician performs a PTCA with drug-eluting stent placement in the left anterior descending' artery and angioplasty only in the right coronary artery.

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The procedure performed is PTCA with drug-eluting stent placement in the left anterior descending artery and angioplasty only in the right coronary artery. Therefore, the correct codes to use are 92980-LD (percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty [PTCA], single vessel only, drug-eluting stent, with coronary angiography, including intraprocedural pharmacological agent administration, when performed; initial vessel) and 92984-RC (percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty [PTCA], each additional branch of a coronary artery (List separately in addition to code for primary procedure).

A Physician Performs a PTCA with Drug-Eluting Stent Placement in the Left