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Does the advice from Coding Clinic, First Quarter 2010, page 5, regarding the coding of neurologic deficits caused by CVA even when they have resolved at the time of discharge from hospita...
Hemiplegia i...
The patient was admitted with gastrointestinal bleeding. The provider performed microbead embolization to the inferior mesenteric artery, to totally occlude the artery. What is the appropriate ICD-...
Microcoils a...
The patient suffered lower gastrointestinal bleeding and was treated with endovascular embolization using microcoils to stop the blood flow. The bleeding site was found in the proximal left descend...
Microcoils a...
Working at a psychiatric hospital, we often come across the diagnosis of “complicated bereavement.” What is the correct code for “complicated bereavement” when there is no mention of adjust...
Assign code ...
If a physician documents heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), heart failure with preserved systolic function, and/or heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), heart f...
No, the code...
A 69-year-old man with recurrent incisional hernia is admitted to undergo an incisional herniorrhaphy with mesh. An incision was made in the midline and carried through the skin and subcutaneous ti...
No, do not a...
A 65-year-old man was admitted and underwent emergent surgery secondary to incarcerated ventral hernia due to adhesions. The surgeon carried out laparoscopic ventral hernia repair with mesh. Accord...
In this inst...
The patient had uterine adenocarcinoma and was admitted for surgery. The surgeon noted in the dictated report that numerous adhesions between the abdominal wall and uterus were carefully and thorou...
Yes. Assign ...
A patient underwent exploratory laparotomy with lysis of adhesions and colostomy with removal of polyp of the ascending colon and repair of umbilical hernia. The lysis of adhesions was undertaken c...
No, do not a...
How would a diagnosis of “postoperative seroma” be coded in ICD-10-CM?
...Currently, I...