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A patient presents to the Emergency Department (ED) for evaluation of a sore throat, which the provider diagnosed as Strep throat. The provider also documented attention deficit hyperactivity disor...
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Since an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is a direct surgical anastomosis of the patient’s native vessels without the use of a device, implant, or graft, would codes from category T82, Complications ...
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What is the appropriate code assignment for a pseudoaneurysm of an arteriovenous fistula (AVF)?
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What is the correct code assignment for a pseudoaneurysm of an arteriovenous graft (AVG)?
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The patient presents for treatment of perirectal cyst and undergoes dilation of the fistula tract to drain the cyst. At surgery, the perirectal cyst was identified, and a needle was used to punctur...
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A 27-year-old female at 39 weeks gestation was admitted for induction of labor, due to transient hypertension and favorable cervix. After artificial rupture of membranes and induction of labor with...
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A non-verbal 65-year-old male, who has cerebral palsy and an intellectual disability, presents to the emergency department with a traumatic head injury after falling and striking his head on the si...
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Is malnutrition considered integral to chronic illnesses like cancer? For example, if a provider documents malnutrition in a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy may malnutrition be coded se...
While loss o...
How should malnutrition that progresses in severity be coded? For example, moderate protein calorie malnutrition is documented on admission but progresses to severe protein calorie malnutrition dur...
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There are various clinical criteria for malnutrition and payers may require different criterions for reporting malnutrition. Which clinical criteria should coding professionals use when reporting a...
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