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A 76-year-old patient diagnosed with clinical stage I right breast cancer presented for right breast oncoplastic lumpectomy with reconstruction. Following the right lumpectomy with reconstruction, ...
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An adult patient presented for follow-up of multiple medical conditions. The provider documented class 3 obesity as one of the patient’s diagnoses. Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2022, pa...
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An adult patient presented for follow-up of multiple medical conditions. The provider documented morbid obesity and class 3 obesity. Previous Coding Clinic advice instructed that morbid ob...
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A patient with a recently diagnosed 16-week intrauterine fetal demise, presented at 20 weeks gestation for suction dilation and curettage. After the procedure, the patient experienced hemorrhagic s...
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A 59-year-old patient with a history of aortic valve stenosis, status post bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement, is admitted due to persistent fatigue, chills, night sweats, and abnormal labs. Ca...
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A patient with known coronary artery disease (CAD) who is status post coronary artery intervention with multiple stent insertions, was admitted due to an acute non-ST-elevation myocardial infarctio...
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A patient was diagnosed with streptococcus viridans bacteremia and endocarditis of a transplanted aortic valve. Codes T82.6XXA, Infection and inflammatory reaction due to cardiac valve prosthesis, ...
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A patient with a history of prior cesarean section was admitted for a trial of labor at 38-weeks of gestation. Due to failure to progress and fetal intolerance of labor, the patient had a repeat ce...
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A patient underwent a repeat low transverse cesarean section. During surgery, a large right Bartholin’s abscess was drained and marsupialized. It appears that an additional code should be reporte...
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A critically ill premature newborn was delivered at 23 weeks of gestation and diagnosed with jaundice. Phototherapy was provided and bilirubin levels were monitored. Is it appropriate to assign cod...
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