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Arstasis is an access technique that lends itself to hemostasis facilitated by physiology and the laws of physics. It creates a tissue track that slants across the arterial wall in a diagonal, thus...
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A patient presents for repair of an umbilical hernia. The umbilical hernia sac was removed and the omentum was placed into the abdomen. Finger palpation revealed a small ventral hernia with a fasci...
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A patient is seen at our facility for a complete detached quadriceps tendon and bilateral detached retinaculum repair. The quadriceps tendon was repaired in a Bunnell type fashion with wire and sep...
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Would there ever an instance where “once in a lifetime” code(s) may be reported more than once?
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The term “once in a lifetime” may seem pretty self explanatory to many. However, for some, examples will make it crystal clear. Can you provide some code examples of these procedures?
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Our facility dermatologist provided us with an article regarding destruction of telangiectasia. The article stated it would be inappropriate to report code range 17106-17108 for this service. We ha...
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Brachial Artery Reactivity Testing (BART) is a test for early detection of atherosclerosis that was developed in the 1990s. These vascular studies are noninvasive and performed via duplex/ultrasoni...
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Since January 1, 2009, CPT codes 90853, Group psychotherapy (other than of a multiple-family group) and 90857, Interactive group psychotherapy, were replaced with timed HCPCS code...
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A patient with a history of hypertension, hypokalemia, markedly elevated aldosterone/rennin ratio, received a saline suppression test which confirmed primary hyperaldosteronism. This patient is now...
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