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A patient presents due to acute gastrointestinal bleed (GI). An esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) was performed, which showed gastric ulcers as well as portal hypertension. The physician...
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A patient, who has a past medical history of spinal stroke with residual bilateral lower extremity paralysis, now presents with abdominal pain. The physician documents “Spinal stroke of unk...
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How is a persistent postoperative fistula coded? When referencing the Alphabetic Index, the coder is instructed as follows:
Fistula
postoperative, persistent T8...
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The patient has a history of bowel perforation and obstruction, and is status post complex abdominal surgery due to intestinal anastomotic leak. She was transferred to the long-term care hospital (...
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A patient, who had recently undergone right mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction using a tissue expander and AlloDerm, is readmitted for treatment of skin necrosis at the mastectomy site...
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